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Addiction Is Not A Choice: Dr. Gabor Maté’s Call for A Compassionate & Holistic Approach To Healing

The Rich Roll Podcast

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The Death of a Hardcore Addict

I think that kind of dovetails nicely into really a foundational aspect of your work, which is reframing the question around addiction. And instead of asking why the addiction, asking why the pain, and this sort of more expansive perspective on what addiction is. Well, traditional wisdom and addiction is either the legalistic one that has it as a bad choice that people make, from which they have to be deterred by means of severe punishment,. hence we've got the so-called criminal justice system. It is a criminal system, the justice system of criminal, the way it treats people.

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