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

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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.

Mental modelThe pain beneath the symptom

What Gabor Mate actually said

Gabor Mate 5 Apr 2017 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

↗BEYOND DRUGS: The Universal Experience of Addictiondrgabormate.com
5 Apr 2017

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