Sublime

He believes you can only ethically give out drugs if you are also at the same time trying to solve the deeper problem.

propriety.

By this accounting, one hit off a meth pipe is equal to ten orgasms.

The body becomes addicted to guilt or any emotion in the same way that it would get addicted to drugs.

But I worry that we have both oversanitized and overpathologized childhood, raising our children in the equivalent of a padded cell, with no way to injure themselves but also no means to ready themselves for the world.

Mindfulness practices are especially important in the early days of abstinence. Many of us use high-dopamine substances and behaviors to distract ourselves from our own thoughts. When we first stop using dopamine to escape, those painful thoughts, emotions, and sensations come crashing down on us.