Alcohol is an exception among them all. It’s a unique situation when a drug (according to neurobiological researches even more dangerous than illicit ones) has never been outlawed for really long. It isn’t appropriate now to discuss the reasons for this relatively favorable attitude of the society to alcohol, but the attitude doesn’t seem to be relevant to the alcohol abuse danger to humans. On the other hand, this unique situation gives rich and not only experimental material to study the implications and results of the use of alcohol as a psychoactive substance. The paradox of the situation has been stressed many times; there’re many examples of people starting to play a very dangerous and complex game with alcohol as well as attempts to break with the alcohol addiction (mostly in vain). These examples haven’t helped us to find the answer which methods can be used to play this chess game correctly. To say more, we don’t know how to lose the game with dignity and not to try to start a new one. Having spent years in philosophic meditations and understanding the value of any comparisons and analogies in such specific discourses we’ll try to compare alcohol and gambling addiction, although therefore we break the rule a little. The principle of any casino, lottery or anything alike (assumed the organizers play fair) is based on the simple idea that chance to win is accidental and of low probability. Thus, the establishment gets maximum profit. However, there’s another factor the gain of a player can be megafold comparing to the investment. In other words, a situation arises when a person can theoretically predict the winning, but almost never can do it in practice. Gamers’ confidence in their abilities outweighs not only the common sense, but also the scientific logic. Having lost one game a gambler begins another one being sure in better results this time.