Thank you for sharing and I am sure this article will help many. The downside to this cheery disposition is that people may read it as proof that substance abuse is a failure of willpower. Please read my article and I hope your readers will as well, https://medium.com/illumination/drilling-down-to-the-root-cause-of-addiction-7c57c5a3fd6c, in which I argue that the answer to the question of whether substance abuse is a personal failure of willpower or a disease that deserves medical treatment does not matter. The problem affects all of society so society must stop the binary assignment-of-blame-approach and simply accept that the problem affects millions of people touching the lives of all and costs society hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Substance abusers have the ultimate accountability for their actions and a duty to do what they can to recover. Society needs to do its part to understand addiction, remove the stigma, and make proper care affordable not only for addiction but for mental health generally. 12-step programs and rehabs are salves between relapses. A new paradigm is required. Until we destigmatize substance abuse, the cycle of failure will never end.