Never Enough: the neuroscience and experience of addiction (The Addicted Brain)

by Judith Grisel

The opposite of addiction, I have learned, is not sobriety but choice.

I’d sought wellness and became sick; fun, but lived in a constant state of anxious dread; freedom, and was enslaved.

if by chance someone does develop a pill to cure my addictive nature, I’d take two and use every day.

The first is that the more DNA one shares with an addict, the higher one’s risk.

It is not heroin, alcohol, nicotine, or cocaine that makes one an addict; it is the drive to escape from reality.

As we grapple to respond to the growing population of addicts, we’d do well to recognize that disordered use comes from, thrives in, and creates alienation.