“Drug addiction has to be devilified,” Dr. Bruce Perry said during our interview. “If we create environments that are safe and predictable and relationally enriched, then all of the other factors involved in substance abuse and dependence will be so much easier to dissolve away. Our challenge is to figure out how to create these environments. “We really need … and I know it sounds kind of corny … we need to be very loving, very accepting, and very patient with people who have these problems. And if we are, they will have a much higher probability of getting better.” We need to absorb in our
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