Addiction is about pain it is about the denied and wounded spirit. Don't ever forget that some of the most creative people in history were addicts. Creativity causes pain it rips open the fabric of society and forces people to look upon their own ugliness sometimes too. Many addicts are our soliders who were wounded in our stupid wars about drugs. This thing in Afghanistan is about opium and other natural resources. Don't forget what we do down in South America and on our own boarder down Mexico way either.
I believe addiction is a sickness not a choice. I do not know anyone touched by addiction that is not in pain. We have made this pain illegal and I guess that is one way of controlling it but it does not even touch the real reason for addiction which is the pain that the people who are addicted are in.