Learning about the substitutability of addictions was very interesting to me. I have a family member who is a recovering heroin addict. He has been clean from heroin for 6 years. His addiction has become the women he dates. He becomes addicted to them like a drug and obsesses over them. I watched this end his engagement as he just became so addicted and controlling that his fiancée was forced to get a restraining order. Other family members and I realized that this was due to his addictive personality. Quitting the drug led him to find new addictions, although he is in denial about this truth. I've learned that most addicts find a "healthier" addiction when they give up their drug of choice. The "healthier" option, however, isn't always healthy.
