Honestly, I'm not sure, but you can decide.
I was adopted. I grew up with and was exposed to traumatic experiences at an early age and developed mental illness symptoms and addiction symptoms. Those persisted for a number of years, starting around age nine. I left school and was out on my own as an early teen. I was relocated to another family, where I found the beginnings of some stability.
When we look at how people identify recovery, it includes several components: connection, hope, an improved sense of identity, motivation for the future and a feeling of empowerment—recognizing that one of the core features of addiction is the experience of loss of control over one's behaviour while one is aware of the harms that are resulting. Those components spell the acronym CHIME. CHIME was produced through meta-analyses and systematic reviews. It's been replicated. This is how people describe their experience of recovery.
That was certainly true for me. I was fortunate to find it through study, mountaineering and pouring my energies into those types of activities. I never went to 12-step meetings, but I know many people, of course, who benefit from other methods of transcending their loss of control and finding those qualities summarized in the CHIME acronym.