Is addiction a choice? | Big Questions with Gabor Maté
Lots of us are normal and unhealthy at the same time The addiction is an attempt to soothe the trauma - a response to trauma If we actually understand what an addiction is, we realize that drugs are only a small part of the addictive spectrum Why are we ostracizing a particular segment of the addicted population where virtually all of us -in this particularly stressful culture-have addictive patterns-or have had? Health, physical or mental is a spectrum