How we got addiction treatment so wrong.

The research now tells us the cause of 90% of addiction is unresolved childhood trauma. In this interview Johann Hari makes the point that people in addiction are actually disconnected from their lives & from society, actually making the addiction worse & therefore harder to break the addiction.His research along with most of the world research going on is now suggesting the more successful way to recover from Addiction is to actually help an addict re-connect to their lives, to give them purpose. His mantra is whats the opposite of addiction? Its is connection. Dr. Gabor Mats mantra is not why the addiction but why the pain! So their informing us quite clearly addiction is derived from of form of escapism from emotional pain. Surly the answers lies there, help solve the addicts emotional pain & help reintroduce them back into meaningful connections with their lives, stop the punishing & shaming people who find themselves in so much pain, where addiction actually became an attractive solution to their pain & if we change our ideas on how to treat addiction, were going to see much more people in addiction recover. Theyve used these methods in Portugal over 20 years & the numbers of addiction & diseases caused by addiction are overwhelming down, so much so that that the Portuguese politicians dont want to go back to the way addicts were disconnected socially or shamed or punished.