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alt texttweet by Johann Hari: The core of addiction is not wanting to be present in life, because pour life is too painful a place to be. This is why imposing more pain or punishment on a person with an addiction problem actually makes their addiction worse.

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[–] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think you misread. I was saying that the idea of solving the drug problem by going after the supply is flawed because it’s never been successful.