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Treating an addiction without treating the pain underneath it is treating an effect rather than a cause.

Drawn from what Gabor Mate said

SubjectAddiction

Addiction Compulsive use that continues through the harm it causes — and the argument about whether it is a disease, a choice, or a response to pain.

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What Gabor Mate actually said

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  1. Gabor Mate

    Physician and author on addiction

    to treat the addiction, which is a symptom, without treating the pain that underlies it is to deal in effects rather than in causes, and therefore dooms many to ongoing cycles of suffering

    Where this was said

    ↗BEYOND DRUGS: The Universal Experience of Addictiondrgabormate.com

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