Just want you to know there is allot of good information here and i will be personally recommending these discussions to a few people i know.

I personally have a wow account and play along with a selection of other games i enjoy, i also have a life, a beautiful partner who is the world to me, a successful career and plenty of friends (and by friends i mean people in real life i can see and touch).
I also have an addiction, Smoking, just FYI i don't think myself immune to addiction.

And on the subject of addiction people with an addictive personality trait need to look at the reasons why you do what you are doing, in my case i smoke because i feel i need to, its not the reason i started smoking but i got addicted, this is part of my personality and its something i need to actively watch probably for the rest of my life, if i didn't watch myself i would also be addicted to wow, or working, or my car, or taking long rides in the forest ect, but i don't want to give up doing any of these things because i enjoy them, but once something moves from "i want" to "I need" that's when it turns into addiction, i don't see WoW as anymore evil than the company i work for or the crew of overpaid Italians that made my car, its my own problem that i need to deal with and it would do me no justice blaming the world.

So just a bit of advise to those reading the that play WoW, if you find yourself saying "I need to raid" "I need to get 300 more arena points" "i need to get my T6 gloves" its likely time to stop for a second and spend time with your love, go for a walk or do some study.

And FYI if you want to raid there are allot of casual guilds out there with mature GM's that understand you need to have a life and have life's themselves