Supposedly, she has a PHD.  There's few addicts, drug or calorie, as frustrating as the well educated. Almost all of them come into it with this arrogance that addictions are something that can only happen to other people. Whether it's someone with a lower level degree or someone who just went to the "wrong" school. And if the addicts school has 'any' prestige whatsoever than every other school is automatically the wrong school.