The Truth About Addiction and Recovery by Stanton Peele

Author:Stanton Peele
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Touchstone

Summary

Aging, maturity, and competing values and goals—such as family, work, and responsibilities toward others—have always been and will remain the best and most common antidotes to drug and alcohol addiction. Similar value shifts over the course of your lifetime, due both to life stage and to the environments you become a part of, offer you the best prospect of quitting other addictions as well. If we could simply package these value shifts—which enable most people to outgrow addiction—we would have the most tried-and-true treatment in the world. But it is more than a treatment; it is a “passage,” part of the natural unfolding of your life. And if you don’t have in place the interests and satisfactions, the meanings and investments in life that can compete with your addictive motivations, then you must develop these personal resources.

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