You may not be blaming yourself for the addiction itself, but certainly you are blaming yourself (i.e. deciding that you are the problem and you need to change)

You may not be blaming yourself for the addiction itself, but certainly you are blaming yourself (i.e. deciding that you are the problem and you need to change) for your actions under the addiction. I suspect for many that fine distinction would be lost, and it would be easy to fall into thinking that this is all my fault (and that I could do with a drink to get over it). Perhaps one of the steps should be to separate the causes of the addiction, from the effects of the addiction. Then it becomes much easier to come to terms with what you have done, as you can separate things that you had a choice over, vs things you did not. Of course I am taking the (modernist?) approach of 'to understand something is to control something'. Maybe that won't work for everyone, but I'd like to think it would work for many.