There is a host of questions to be considered. Among them: • What are the causes of addictions? • What is the nature of the addiction-prone personality? • What happens physiologically in the brains of addicted people? • How much choice does the addict really have? • Why is the War on Drugs a failure, and what might be a humane, evidence-based approach to the treatment of severe drug addiction? • What are some of the paths for redeeming addicted minds not dependent on powerful substances—that is, how do we approach the healing of the many behavior addictions fostered by our culture?
