These pages may still be of help to you, but you must face your responsibility to society. Much depends upon what you are doing to recover, who the illegal behavior affects, and the healthy commitment to you of those who surround you. Dealing with your addictions may result in some legal consequence, however, and this cannot be obscured. There is a growing intolerance for certain drug, alcohol, sexual, feloneous, and violent behaviors often related to addictions. This increases my concern that you deal with your behavior today, and not wait until it might lead you into illegal behaviors against your will.
Most addictions have a psychological aspect.
If your psychological makeup is not the cause of the addiction, than the addiction often causes some psychological dependency linked with its resulting behaviors. Regardless of what your addiction is, you will have to deal with both the behavioral and developmental aspects of its hold on your life. There are sophisticated models in operation on the behavioral level of psychology. Although most of these deal with pathology, they often are easily adapted to lay models for the reinforcing of healthy behaviors. They are simple enough to understand and use, and help in understanding your behavior and the behaviors of others.