“There’s a zillion ways a person can recover,” said Szalavitz. “But they tend to all be getting a new passion and a new sense of meaning and purpose and community and connection. One person might fall in love with exercise. Another might get really into rock climbing. Another person might hate both of those things and need to see a specialist for an issue like childhood trauma they were managing with drugs. But it’s all about figuring out how to find your way in life again and deal with whatever led a person to become addicted in the first place.”
