Psychological Causes of Addiction - Addictions

I'm with the scientific community with regards to addiction recovery. Therapies like CBT & DBT helped me move past addiction. Knowing that I can effect substantial changes in my life, using life skill building practices has proved vast positive mood changes.

To go from a street living gutter drug slave. Wearing filthily clothing, no bed or bath to occasion, hungry, cold, abandon, destitute, hopeless, "to a person that embraces life" abiding secular recovery practices is as miraculous of the holiest of the heap Gods'.

As the 12 Steps are a major social model.
What is clear to me that change, positive change occurs outside the the 12 step concept constantly and profoundly. Like myself.