Is addiction really hard to get over?

I've thought about a lady with an addiction trying so hard to let go of this horrible taste in her life but she can't and when she tries all she can do is lie she just lies about what is truly haunting her and how she can't get rid of a sour taste in her mouth a bitterness that haunts her personality like never before. Sometimes I think about young children that have been taught about addiction before suffering just at the thought of it not being able to let go of something that seems to be pulling the soul out of them. Some people would think of a man with a family a man with an addiction and something to actually live for. The man wishes he could stop but even his mind knows more than that. All of these have something in common they're all human and they all have someone for them, but they can't also let go they have to just hit or pull whenever something hurts them, they are all one specific person that is hurting and needs something to keep them calm something that won't make them witness and realize who they are to others. Sometimes people may act like who they want to be and sometimes they may lie and go overboard and try to, hard to be that specific person but truly the whole community knows we all have someone to put our shoulder on.