Interestingly, certain addictions are considered more "socially acceptable" than other addictions.
Is the businessman who drinks to oblivion every night and then beats his wife in an alcoholic rage more "upstanding" than the street heroin addict who injects heroin into his veins several times a day?
They are both addicts. Is the "addiction" of the former any less damaging than the latter?
I guess I just don't get the "addiction is addiction" rhetoric.
FT