Treat the Disease, Not the Symptoms

This comes from a group page, Faces and Voices of Recovery. I have written in this blog often about the issues that led to my demise. Alcoholism is a symptom of something going wrong in our lives. The cure needs to eliminate the demons that lead us to self-medicate. Said another way:

Tim Harrington shared a link.

Treatment of Addiction

...Of course, the needs of someone addicted are the same as what all humans need: self-acceptance, relief of pain, peace of mind, social connection, and a sense of power and place.

Treatment, thus, should explore how, in a person’s life, these needs were not fulfilled; why that person developed the belief that only through particular substances or behaviors would they be met: or what, in other words, created the susceptibility....