the counselor's warning and the rapacious addiction — "what Randi, with an i, had…"
what Randi, with an i, had called an addiction every bit as rapacious as pure alcoholism
Context
The one outside verdict in the scene, delivered two years and a treatment program ago and promptly filed under mild scorn — the marijuana habit named, by someone with clinical standing, as an addiction as rapacious as alcoholism, and the observation that he is "insufficiently committed" to removing it. He hears the phrase, feels almost angry, and reasons that since this is the last time the situation could never recur.