In the 21st century, when advanced imaging technology allows us to watch the addicted brain at work and cutting edge science promises high tech means to manage addiction symptoms by altering the brain, when the current treatment method already invokes the help of a higher power, why do we say that to recover fully from addiction, people first must come…
Month: November 2014
Why should you care anyway?
In the early days of my quest for a better way to treat addiction, one of the scientists helping me said the most valuable contribution I could make would be to come up with a definition of addiction that the different factions in the addiction industry could agree on. I thought he was joking. But as time went on, I…