The treatment of pathological gambling: 1, medication, a study found that patients with pathological gambling, there is a substance inside the head is deficient, is 5-hydroxytryptamine, so in foreign countries, generally recommended to use 5-hydroxytryptamine reuptake inhibitors, such as sertraline these drugs to treat emotional and behavioral problems. The clinical findings of some mood stabilizers, in dealing with some impulsive behavior is also helpful, so in the clinical valproate drugs on such impulsive behavior is also helpful, this is the drug treatment. 2, psychological treatment is very critical, pathological gambling patients are mostly combined with some anxiety, depression, compulsive symptoms, these symptoms completely rely on drugs is a certain degree of difficulty, need professional psychologists and So there must be three factors in the treatment of this disease, medication, psychology, health education and cooperation at home.