Fascinating research about addiction and the role community plays in recovery has led scientists to understand the validity of what Johann Hari wrote: “the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection.” It turns out that studying rats, stats about soldiers returning from Vietnam, and the impact of new Portuguese’s laws all point to the reality that recovery is about more than physical healing.
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