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∆ Organizing Principle: What Powers an Addiction is not the same thing as what Causes an Addiction. Under certain conditions an addiction can emerge from any collage of experiences, but the addictive mechanism will not run without the War-within-Self to Power it. Therefore, end the War-within-Self and you end the Addiction, regardless of the type, regardless of cause, regardless of the damage done. Even if the causal mechanism is still in place, the addiction will not run, like a car with an empty gas tank. (I) Discovering an Addiction Paradigm A. First Application of "Surrender-to-Win" to an Addiction B. Letting Go of the War-within-Self (II) Developing an Addiction Phenomenology A. Primacy of Subjective Experience B. First Attempt by Alcoholics Anonymous C. Definition by Relational Equilibria (III) Formulating a Moral Science of Addiction A. Moral Self-Injury B. Three Axes of the Moral Gyroscope ∆ Organizing Principle: When viewed as a Science & Technology Pipeline, Recovery Pathways such as the 12 Steps are responsive to the same demands of Discovery, Development, Formulation, Engineering, and Management. Ultimately spreading the good news, “End the War-within-Self, and you end the Addiction” becomes a Distribution challenge. (IV) Engineering a Recovery Technology A. The Twelve Steps as a Prototype B. Design Intent C. Process & Event (V) Managing Recovery Risk ("There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs."—Thomas Sowell) A. The Twelve Steps as a Prototype B. Triage