I’ve lost a close friend to heroin. But the vast majority or Vietnam soldiers who were doing heroin overseas stopped using without issue after coming home — an

I’ve lost a close friend to heroin. But the vast majority or Vietnam soldiers who were doing heroin overseas stopped using without issue after coming home — an inconvenient truth for the chemical-centric model of addiction. In reality, it’s deep emotional pain or psychological distress that makes the difference between a person who gets addicted to drugs and a person who doesn’t, basically. Like everything else that is touched by dogma and epidemiology, this fact has been lost.