"What if such a study stated plainly that what we see as the problem of addiction isn't really the problem at all, but a manifestation of a deeper pain caused by a damaging incident within the life history of an individual? What would this understanding of the cause of addiction mean for its diagnosis and treatment? What would it mean for the process that we call detoxification? Could it change the industry's history high levels of treatment failures and relapses?...
"One individual asked Felitti to then explain an obvious confound to the theory that ACEs drive addictive behavior. "What about those who succeed, despite the prevalence of ACEs in their personal histories?" Felitti replied that although some individuals may have escaped addictive behaviors, high ACE scores also correlated with the incidence of stress-related breakdowns in the human immune system, often leading to premature deaths due to cancer or other chronic diseases."
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