How to Connect With Addicts and Patients in the Addiction Hospital

In order to truly connect, the person in front of you needs to feel safe. And if they don't feel safe because you aren't giving them the time, or you are connecting with them in a way as though they were criminals, that's not going to work. 95% of patients in the eddiction hospital came from broken homes. This is a way to adapt to it. Where they're trying to escape something. There's trying to either fill a void or heal a wound. The problem is the way they're doing it alleviates it enough for them to believe that it works. I wanted to focus on prevention over treatment. i went on a quest to understand what i