Sublime

Likewise, decreasing the supply of addictive substances decreases exposure and risk of addiction and related harms.

the growing problem of compulsive overconsumption that we all face today, even when our lives are good. I have a kind and loving husband, great kids, meaningful work, freedom, autonomy, and relative wealth—no trauma, social dislocation, poverty, unemployment, or other risk factors for addiction. Yet I was compulsively retreating further and further

I ask my patients, “What kinds of barriers can you put into place to make it harder for you to get easy access to your drug of choice?” I have even used self-binding in my own life to manage problems of compulsive overconsumption. Self-binding can be organized into three broad categories: physical strategies (space), chronological strategies

The shame of this has its own perverted delusion: an addict’s pride in the genius it takes to satisfy an addiction.

The poor and undereducated, especially those living in rich nations, are most susceptible to the problem of compulsive overconsumption. They have easy access to high-reward, high-potency, high-novelty drugs at the same time that they lack access to meaningful work, safe housing, quality education, affordable health care, and race and class equality

Whether we tally health expenditures, loss of human life, economic strain or any other measure, the “respectable” addictions, around which entire cultures, industries and professions have been built, leave drug addiction in the dust.

Drugs are not help when they take the form of dependency or addiction. Then, you may have to reclaim your personal power from the drugs. This might even mean going over all of the steps you thought you were taking toward healing, again, without the drugs. Drugs