"The root cause of addiction is an intense conflict between one’s conscious mind and one’s subconscious — if you believe in souls, between one’s human side and one’s spirit. As I have written in Positive Impacts of My Soul’s Emergence/Awakening:

'There is a yin and yang to life’s purpose. There are human wants and soul wants. A life will be harmonious when those two are aligned.'

Finding that alignment will lift the compulsion to abuse substances." from my https://medium.com/recovery-cultures/drilling-down-to-the-root-cause-of-addiction-7c57c5a3fd6c