Hooked

 Lotta soft use for this.  A supreme liking for something in any venue.  People forget the deeper use for this.  

Addiction is pervasive and much analyzed.  I won't delve that far.  Please research more fully.

I just want to remark on a few things.

Obsessive.  A need for something w/o which someone is lost, sick and dying; even though it often leads to death.  

One can become addicted to almost anything.  Drugs, booze, food, spending, gambling etc.  It's all retreat.

Just a little to get through becomes more til there is nothing else.

True there are a few socalled 'functioning' addicts but they walk a tightrope.  Like chemistry there might be an inbalance.

Often addictions are coping mechanisms to placate abuse.  And often abused is fueled by addiction.

The whole thing is decay of family/humanity.  The solution becomes a problem.  

Reality.  Ignored.  Destruction like having tea in a burning house and saying everything was fine.  

Some survive.  Others don't.  Find out how.  

Some are prone to addiction.  Some aren't.  Stress drinking is a common example and can be stopped.

Seek and you shall find.  

Face reality every day.  Because nothing else will be left.