As a nh ladc and anger management clinician, I an my staff will address your needs as unique. No one is put into a box or treated with cookie cutter programming. Nor do we you labeling yourself as a finished product like addict, drunk, loser, drug addict, or any other sort. You do what you do for your reasoning and it is through your reasoning that we help you sort out your motivation for use to abuse.
The existential phenomenon of addiction has been around since the human organism first experienced pleasure. Although pleasure has remained a constant, the only changes have been the mediums used for pleasure. The use of alcohol, drugs, gambling, sex, food, exercise, drawing, gardening, writing, reading and so on, are all pleasurable mediums that are open to function and dysfunction in terms of use and abuse.
When society reads in the newspaper or catches on local news channels the headlines: Murder-Suicide, Domestic Abuse Homicide, or Workplace Violence, they are intrigued out of the common interest that everyone has been frustrated in a relationship at home, work, and within their communities.
