This short video explains the view of a physician who worked with the most trenchant forms of addiction in Vancouver, British Columbia. But he doesn't believe that pills, or even the modus operandi of changing behavior, is the answer to the problem. His observation is that addiction is a response to emotional trauma, especially that which occurs in childhood. His perspective reminds me of Carl Jung's, when Jung said that all neuroses are an attempt to avoid genuine suffering. We all suffer. What is at the root of our responses to our own suffering and our inability to resolve and heal that pain?
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