Are Addictions Good?

Many years ago, I was counseling a highly successful overseas surgeon. He had been top of class all of his life, after growing up working in the family business where he was doggedly worked by his father and abjectly neglected by his mother. Now, in his early-40s, he was by all metrics a colossal success with not just a thriving practice, but a string of clinics he owned and ran, an adjunct professorship at a prestigious university, two late-teen kids, and a newly minted divorce that he was struggling from but still powering through the effects of.