The Elusive Science of Addiction
Many addicts report that taking drugs provides a feeling like being hugged, a feeling they are unlikely to find elsewhere. It is time that we acknowledge that, for many patients, social exclusion, marginalization, poverty, and loneliness are part of the addictive process.
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LINKÖPING, SWEDEN – I still remember a conversation I had more than 25 years ago, when I was a young physician, just starting in my work with patients struggling with drugs and alcohol. “You know, doc,” a patient told me. “Getting drunk or taking heroin feels like being hugged by mom.”