Well said.. I agree with most of what you shared. Though I've had a slightly different idea about addiction than most people.. I don't see addiction as bad. I think it's just important to try to be addicted to the right things! Like. What's wrong with being addicted to helping people? That seems like a good addiction to me! I think it's when our addictions start to hurt our lives that it becomes a problem.. And curiously enough, I never looked up the etymology of addiction before and I was a lil surprised to see what it said..
Nonetheless I think it kinda lines up with how I felt.. It depends on how you look at the addiction and how it's controlling or effecting your life.

"addiction (n.) Look up addiction at Dictionary.com
c. 1600, "tendency, inclination, penchant" (a less severe sense now obsolete); 1640s as "state of being (self)-addicted" to a habit, pursuit, etc., from Latin addictionem (nominative addictio) "an awarding, a delivering up," noun of action from past participle stem of addicere "to deliver, award; devote, consecrate, sacrifice" (see addict (v.)). In the sense "compulsion and need to take a drug as a result of prior use of it" from 1906, in reference to opium (there is an isolated instance from 1779 with reference to tobacco)."

HOWEVER.. The modern definition is not so umm.. Great.

"noun 1.the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma."

Though.. I still kinda feel the same way.. A few times in my life I've said something like.. You shouldn't be a slave to anything.. Except perhaps love.. So.. If you're slave to love and helping others.. I still think that's a pretty good addiction compared to other addictions that can really mess you up psychologically and physically.