A hurt is at the center of all addictive behaviors. . . . The wound may not be as deep and the ache not as excruciating, and it may even be entirely ….

We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world..

A long-term substance abuser, a few months before his death, penned this poem: Went downtown, Hastings and Main, looking for relief from the pain. A….

... While nervous tension may be a component of stress, one can be stressed without feeling tension..

Autonomy is impossible as long as one is driven by anything..

The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans, t….

In the real world there is no nature vs. nurture argument, only an infinitely complex and moment-by-moment interaction between genetic and environmen….

Not why the addiction, but why the pain..

Medical thinking usually sees stress as highly disturbing but isolated events such as, for example, sudden unemployment, a marriage breakup, or the d….

It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour..

The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates..