Something to keep in mind when interacting with addicts is that their brains are typically dopamine starved due to childhood abuse where dopamine-generating activities where discouraged or actively punished. If you had to rate your happiness on any typical day on a scale of -10 to +10, you're likely to be somewhere between 0 (neutral) and 10 (one of your best days). Addicts' baseline happiness levels don't even *make it to 0*. They're abusing substances not to feel awesome...but just to feel normal the way you so on a random day where your highlight is going through the Taco Bell drive thru and petting your kitty after work. That's why intervention based on stopping drug use is so difficult because their average day is crippling lack of dopamine.