Is behavioral addiction just a developmental stage?

Is behavioral addiction just a developmental stage?

Marc Kern (Addiction Expert, Director of Addiction Alternatives) gives expert video advice on: How is a behavioral addiction similar to a substance behavioral addiction?; What is an "addictive personality"?; What can be done about an addictive personality? and more...

Some people mature out of them, meaning something that's important like video games might be very important during adolescent years, it may turn into a different addiction in their early adulthood, or they may mature out of it and not have any sort of addiction at all. Other people with alcohol problems or other kind of addictions, you know, as they age, they mature out of it. But that's not to say that there aren't people that, as they age, it actually escalates. It's a very individual sort of phenomenon that you can't really sort of say, "This is always what happens." In fact, that's one of the things I get upset about is because in the disease model, they always say it will eventuate in death or something very serious, and that's not what the research says, and many people have even been diagnosed as alcoholics actually return to moderate drinking, or some sort of less problematic association with their addiction.