This morning I woke up on time with only lingering symptoms from my illness.

I thought some more about the problems in dealing with addiction.  I realized that I have been confusing two issues, the way we look at the behavior, and the needs of the person with addiction, and the way we approach the behavior.  Here is how they sort out for me now:

We tend to look at the problem as one of personality, environment, and human nature.
We need to address the problematic behavior just as we would any problem, we should get the larger, basic problems in order first then attend to the complex, individualistic issues later when they are better attuned to deal with them.
We should attend to the basic human nature first, environment second, complex personality issues third.
People in early stages of recovery need structure, moral discipline, and (personal therapy?) in that order.