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Sam Quinones

“The front of the brain has to develop through mistakes. But the first reaction of the addicted person is to head back to the family: ‘Will you rescue me?’ Whatever the person’s rescued from, there’s no learning. There’s no experiences, no frontal brain development. They’re doing well and then some idea comes into their head and they’re off a cliff. It may not be a decision to use. Most relapse comes not from the craving for the drug. It comes from this whole other level of unmanageability, putting myself in compromising situations, or being dishonest, being lazy—being a fifteen-year-old.”

Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
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