Addictions are not necessarily bad things, or at least they never intend to be bad things. They are ways people look to "elixers", I call them, to cope with life, bad feelings, bad events, and they're always adaptive at first.

The way I define addiction is "an adaptation to life that has gone awry." What happens over time is that adaptation goes down a wrong road or a bad road or a "Y" and the person is locked into it.