Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying
David SheffOnce and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. Itโs critical if weโre going to effectively prevent and treat addiction. Accepting that addiction is an illness will transform our approach to public policy, research, insurance, and criminality; it will change how we feel about addicts, and how they feel about themselves. Thereโs another essential reason why we must understand that addiction is an illness and not just bad behavior: We punish bad behavior. We treat illness.
David SheffHow can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?
David SheffWe deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.
David Sheff