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By Gabor Mate, PESI, May 2, 2020
Have you ever wondered, as I have, how someone with an addiction could go through 21 detox centers and 5 treatment facilities, yet continue to relapse?
It wasn’t until I started working in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside—one of the most concentrated areas of drug use, mental illness, and poverty in North America—that I realized...
The reason these treatments do NOT work is because they try to treat the addictive behavior and fail to address the problem.
It might go against conventional wisdom, but in my 30+ years of clinical experience I’ve found that every kind of addiction—from drug use to sex to exercise and everything in between—is a symptom of a much deeper, unrecognized problem.
I discuss the root cause of addictions and what we as therapists can do to help in this in-depth article, The Addict in All of Us: Gabor Maté’s Unflinching Vision.
Go here to get your free copy of The Addict in All of Us and discover a new approach to understanding and treating addictions.
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