Re/addiction is a disease.... the person I knew was also a criminal. I'm not saying all people who have addictions are criminals..far from that. However, I learned there ARE people with addictions, a lot of them, actually, who use the system to the max, and, that, in my opinion, is a degree of criminality in and of itself. The person I knew had been in and out of rehab most of his adult life, to no effect. When he had the mental hygiene report, he ended up in a mental hospital with a lot of other people on the same floor with all sorts of conditions. A nurse who worked there said many of these people actually belonged in jail or prison.