Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong | Johann Hari | TED" video.

This is definitely consistent with what I've found in terms of my alcoholism. I'd stopped using for about 6 months before I realized what was going on. I was in so much pain that I'd literally take anything to deal with it. Somehow I managed my way through that, but in the years since, most days I have no interest in drugs, except when I get lonely around the holidays.
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