Well if I am an addict that means I am prone to addiction, where Jane Doe next door may not be but maybe she has other issues to overcome....what I find interesting is when a person will say it frequently to explain their behaviors that are not related. Example; "I left the groceries sitting on the counter at the store. I'm such a fricken addict". A close friend of mine did this for the first year or two of his clean time, has since ceased doing it, is clean about four years. It was some sort of major self identifying phase, don't know! but used to make me a little nutz.