Research — and experience — point to trauma as being one of the primary reasons people turn to drug use. My patients, most of whom experienced childhood trauma that led to a lifetime of drug use, point to the memory of the event(s) as the factor that contributed to initial and continued drug use. I believe that recovery…
What can we do to help ourselves… to help our neighbors and friends… to help society… to heal? Like the memory of the actual traumatic events that haunt the victims, the cycle is like a bad dream that replays over and over, from one generation to the next. Those who are one generation’s victims may inadvertently harm their own children. …