![]() I know that it’s easier to say Their kind does seem to have a taste for drugs, easier to write all addicts off as bad and weak-willed people, than it is to look closely at the nature of their suffering. I don’t want to be dismissed the way that Nana was once dismissed. I, too, have spent years creating my little moat of good deeds in an attempt to protect the castle of myself. They want to believe that they have been loved enough and have raised their children well enough that the things that I research will never, ever touch their own lives. Look how strong-willed they are, how many good choices they’ve made. What they’re really saying is that they may have partied in high school and college but look at them now. ![]() ![]() They use words like “will” and “choice,” and they end by saying, “Don’t you think there’s more to it than the brain?” They are skeptical of the rhetoric of addiction as disease, something akin to high blood pressure or diabetes, and I get that. ![]() “Anytime I talk about my work informally, I inevitably encounter someone who wants to know why addicts become addicts. ![]()
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