Addiction isn't a moral failing but stems from unmet needs in childhood, often rooted in systemic failures that affected caregivers too. The speaker argues recovery communities should drop shame-based language and recognize addiction's relational origins instead.
Oh, how do I quit? And I think that this is really linked to this archaic idea of early addictions treatment of considering addiction as being a moral failing, which it's not. Right. Like, you know, it's very important to be acknowledging that. And it breaks my heart that this is still a message that is put out there by addiction practitioners or in different peer recovery groups. Like this, this is rhetoric that, that needs to be done away with. When, whenever we can reframe things of looking at, no, actually, like, the very real needs that people had whenever they were vulnerable babies, whenever they were vulnerable children, were not being met. Like, that's where the failing started. Yeah. And like, and like, and I also want to have compassion for, you know, the caregivers who weren't able to meet those needs either, because a lot of times it was this whole chain reaction. Mm-hmm. Of there being failures of the system that were then impacting people's families in a very deep way. That's right. That is exactly right.
