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tweet by Johann Hari: The core of addiction is not wanting to be present in life, because pour life is too painful a place to be. This is why imposing more pain or punishment on a person with an addiction problem actually makes their addiction worse.
Do people with PTSD who end up self-medicating because they can't find another thing that helps them need to 'own it and not point fingers,' or can the fact that they were in a war or raped regularly by a family member or whatever caused their PTSD be a big part of the issue? Do people with severe mental illness lack personal responsibility? Maybe. But they aren't going to gain it either what with being severely mentally ill.
You are talking about an extremely extremely small percentage of addicts. The vast majority do not come from any situation you mentioned. I stand by what I said.