Description: Changing the global conversation about addiction ask not “why the addiction?” but “Why the pain?”
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We want to change the global conversation around how people view and treat addicts – with compassion instead of judgement – and find the best forms of treatment that have efficacy and share those with the world … with loved ones … with YOU. Today, the conversation is, “Addicts are moral degenerates.” If this continues and we don’t change the conversation, how will we get to a solution of treating addicts well?
We need to ask, “What is the pain that’s underneath the addiction? And, how do we love these people as much as we can?” Instead of just punishing these individuals, we can start to treat them.
For most people that struggle with addiction as adults, most of it started with childhood where connection and intimacy starts off in an unhealthy way.
Joe Polish