Personal Development & Addiction Correlation?

[Shadowraix]

With the discovery of the link between mind and body you can quickly discover a lot of "mental illnesses" such as depression and anxiety are actually fixable. Many people go on the presumption that the mind has no part and such illnesses can not be fixed by the mind and only by chemical alterations from other substances.

I started wondering about the idea of addiction. Obviously there is a chemical aspect to it, but does this become more difficult to happen to you or rather give into it if you are highly developed/conscious?

From my own experience my only "problem" with my drug use was when I did a dissociative a little too much which I discovered was out of boredom. These days I can use the dissociative sparingly and don't use it as an escape from boredom.

Or does there come to a point where your personal development can't override the addiction potential of some substances?