“We treat people’s solutions as problems.” Vincent Felitti MD, the eminent author of the original ACE’s (Adverse Childhood Experiences) study, often makes this point when discussing how we focus on eliminating people’s desperate means of coping, without recognizing their adaptive functions. When addressing substance abuse (the most common method of tolerating overwhelming fear and pain) do we commit the same error of attempting to control the “solution” while largely ignoring the underlying core problems associated with traumatic exposures? For many people with struggling with addictions, substance abuse represents their survival.
[For more of this story, written by Wayne Munchel, go to http://www.cmhnetwork.org/medi...ance-abuse-treatment]
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