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People with addictions have gotten more sympathy with time, and there are now more effective ways to treat addictions. In the past, persons with addictions were seen as having a moral weakness or a lack of willpower. Now, addiction is viewed as a disease.

Also, there is some understanding that some people are born with more of an addiction tendency than others. It is just that not everyone with an addiction tendency has a socially unacceptable addiction. There are work addicts, church addicts, adrenalin junkies, and people who jump out of airplanes for kicks, and they tend to not get grief for their addictions. So just because someone has an addiction gene, it doesn't mean they are going to be smoking crack, shooting heroin, using meth, and binge drinking. For some, they apply such tendencies to their work, such as a stock broker who takes large risks. But even then, there is a danger, since that is not much different than visiting a casino and gambling. So there are many more addicts than are in recovery. There are also addicts with private or hidden addictions, and to things which most people cannot understand would be addicting.

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