The Olympics bring with them considerations of the ways athletes strive to enhance their performances – through the decades by using drugs – like steroids – as well as other techniques – like blood-doping, heart and blood pressure meds, even for the horses in equestrian events by the use of the hot pepper chemical capsaicin. The ancient Greeks even considered eating red meat an unfair advantage. We discuss this wide range of attempts to reach the all important “gold,” along with other news – various stories about gambling — it seems Facebook users are more inclined to gamble and make compulsive choices than “normies.” The game phenomena that is part of Facebook, smartphone apps and other social media includes games like FarmVille and CityVille and several other games by companies like Zynga, which has been remarkably successful through the promotion of these seemly highly addictive games. People even use real money to buy play money for the games. Related also is news that obsessive gambling may be linked to the antidepressant Effexor in people with the severe chance-taking proclivity. The drug blocks the reuptake of dopamine and other neurotransmitters, making it act like cocaine in increasing the sense of good feelings, and making people want to repeat the behavior. Many reports are surfacing about many people relapsing into severe obsessive gambling activities.