I was wrong.

For years, my advice to people seeking guidance about addiction was to avoid trying to explain it except in the simplest of terms: It is a chronic illness, a drug is a drug is a drug, and no matter the cause, the only way to address it is with professional treatment and personal responsibility on the patient's part.

I still believe those things. But this week, I came to a new understanding of the complexities of addiction to alcohol and other drugs. I listened to sc ...

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