The Role of Environment in Heroin Addiction

When soldiers who had been heroin users returned home, only 5 percent of them became re-addicted within a year. This finding contradicted the prevailing view at the time that addiction was irreversible. David Perry: The way to improve self-control is not by wishing you were a more disciplined person. He says people with the best self-control are typically the ones who need to use it the least.