No. I have a perfectly healthy relationship with my father, who just so happens to skip work frequently to play the Voltorb Flip machines not because he has an addiction (he doesn’t, actually) but instead because he seems to enjoy doing that to writing papers or filling out the paperwork associated with our job (which is fair but still not an excuse).
Why anyone would think I consider my father to be a growing headache is quite honestly beyond me.
The Pokédex According to Bill 