1. Individually--Prentiss indicated to Gideon that she knew Reid was having addiction problems as well as PTSD, and he indicated that he was already aware of it; Hotch says something in 'In Name and Blood' that shows he's at least aware of the possibility tbhat Reid is an addict (and given that it's Hotch, that's really plausible-deniability for pretty darned sure); Morgan, JJ and Garcia seem well aware of the PTSD but less so regarding the addiction; Rossi, hard to tell, but probably not very aware on either front, at least initially.
2. He was moderately bratty a couple of times (at least one of which was at least partly him using Prentiss as a means of being rude to Hotch by proxy), and snottily rude on one occasion when she rightly, and not obnoxiously, called him on being utterly unprofessional while dealing with the public and he had no comeback.
3. Touchy, irritable and on two notable occasions late to meetings/AWOL pretty much covers it.
4.Prentiss and Gideon tried (Gideon managed to have a conversation about it, but it was singularly ineffective, and Gideon knew it).
5. Hard to say, as the question is never explicitly addressed, even in 'Elephant's Memory'. It may never have been a physiological addiction, but more a psychological question - cravings, feeling out of control etc, which he had to find a way to deal with. It may equally have been a full-blown physiological addiction.
6. It played out over about a year, both in real time and in in-show time, and for most of the time it was just a running background note, like Hotch's various states of dishevelment in S3. I thought it was given a very effective treatment, and just about the perfect amount of time and attention.
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2. He was moderately bratty a couple of times (at least one of which was at least partly him using Prentiss as a means of being rude to Hotch by proxy), and snottily rude on one occasion when she rightly, and not obnoxiously, called him on being utterly unprofessional while dealing with the public and he had no comeback.
3. Touchy, irritable and on two notable occasions late to meetings/AWOL pretty much covers it.
4.Prentiss and Gideon tried (Gideon managed to have a conversation about it, but it was singularly ineffective, and Gideon knew it).
5. Hard to say, as the question is never explicitly addressed, even in 'Elephant's Memory'. It may never have been a physiological addiction, but more a psychological question - cravings, feeling out of control etc, which he had to find a way to deal with. It may equally have been a full-blown physiological addiction.
6. It played out over about a year, both in real time and in in-show time, and for most of the time it was just a running background note, like Hotch's various states of dishevelment in S3. I thought it was given a very effective treatment, and just about the perfect amount of time and attention.