The tenacity of addiction is as evident to researchers and clinicians as it is to addicts. I’ve been clean for more than thirty years, and I’m still not really interested in moderation. Often people ask whether I don’t wish I might have a glass of wine or a hit off a joint, but I don’t want just one glass or a light buzz; I want the whole bottle, the bag, and then some more of each. The Grateful Dead argued that “too much of everything is just enough,” but as it turned out for Jerry Garcia, and I’d bet is the case for many of us, too much is still not enough. In other words, if by chance
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