Free Will and Addictions

Jeff wrote the following on free will and addictions:
“Still thinking about free will...It seems even if we do have free will to choose behaviors, our free will would not allow us the 'will' to overcome behaviors that we are addicted to.”

I would say… Free will, or the “freedom to choose”, is constrained by options available (external factors), and wants/needs/desires (internal factors). Addiction changes these internal factors leading to changes in behaviour. Through addiction, as the need for a substance strengthens, internal factors exhibit more constraint on free will. Addicts can’t overcome the need to abuse at times, and therefore have less freedom to choose than others.

Thus, yes. If you believe in “free” will then there are some who are “more free” than others.