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Old 11-12-2018, 07:55 AM
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Florence
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I prefer to look at it through a disease model - in part because I believe that the stigma of addiction and all the bad behavior that goes with it is too easily attributed to moral character flaws than mental and physical illness, which has all kinds of financial and policy implications that lead to addicts and their families being mostly on their own with this nightmare.

But that said, the focus on "who they really are" always feels to me like an extension of codependency because a focus on who they are deep down inside is a really convenient way to ignore who *I* am deep down inside and whether or not my side of the road is well-tended.
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