I really think that we live in an age of addiction. There are a lot of people with problems with alcohol, drugs and nowadays, the Internet.
Most of us have to use the PC for work or to seek some information or send an e-mail in our free time. So, it's very difficult to know what is the moment when it becomes an habit and when it changes in a real addiciton. Besides, we are used to using the word "addictive" for a lot of funny things, such as games or even food, in a theorical possitive meaning as a way to cath people attention in how funny the thing is. Therefore, sometimes we are confussed about the real meaning of this kind of words and we can think that be an addict wasn't so bad as it really is.
We live in an age of addiction and even the language is working in this way. The saddest thing is that we don't want to realize it.