“Addiction is running from reality,” a patient of mine once said, “the reality you have that something is stronger. Something that’s greater than you. Instead of admitting it and saying that something scares me—this thing scares me, or I don’t know how to do this, or I don’t know how to live—instead of just saying that, you do drugs. So you coexist with the people that are nonexistent. People are just surviving but not living.”
