Addiction is NOT simple.
Some very clever addiction expert wrote something along the lines of:
We don’t treat addictions here. We treat the underlying trauma and needs. He claims to have a very high success rate compared to other programs.
But addiction is also individual. What works for someone won’t work for everyone, even with the same substance or activity addiction. A lot of addicts have to try a number of times, and using different approaches.
I think the brave part is in going back to try again.
At one stage, my medicos were talking about me needing to go on a methadone program after my month-long coma. I was kept under for so long they thought I was hooked on morphine (hospital grade smack) and propofol (that stipulated killed Michael Jackson). But I didn’t need it. For the second (and technically third as well) time they cracked my chest open I remembered that vividly. I refused all pain meds 2 days after they closed me back up again. I got in trouble for it though, because it slowed my recovery down and moving was agonising. But I was determined to avoid getting addicted.
