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If, like us, you initially forget to enter Bradley's first name, the first site that comes up on Yahoo is for a company that provides "training, consultation and treatment services for compulsive gambling and related addictions" in Bradley Beach, N.J.
Among experts who treat and study compulsive behaviors and chemical dependencies, there is controversy over the meaning of the term "addiction" and the efficacy of the disease model for a range of supposed addictions, from alcoholism to compulsive gambling.
It turns out Starr's place of worship is a 12-steppy, New Agey kind of a deal, emphasizing recovery from various addictions.
Never having been to either West Lake Hills or Topanga, I can only go on the little Lemann gives us to grasp what makes a place "truly hip," but let me go ahead and see if I don't have the whole picture--uh, upper-class, white, Protestant children with dreadlocks, tattoos, and nascent heroin addictions playing in bad rock bands named after legendary 1970s TV sitcoms?
The personal development tradition greatly values the presumed authority of experience, and codependency experts--leaders such as John Bradshaw--routinely confessed their own struggles with various addictions in order to bolster their credibility.