If it is true that addiction is not only about drugs. That our society is addicted: to money, to oil, to instant solutions, to religions, to shopping. to the internet, to status, to things we don't need but supposedly make our life easier . As part of an addicted system we are in a sense all addicts. Then it follows that recovery is not just about recovery from drug addiction, but about the recovery of our society from the disease off addiction which affects us all.