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Addiction Is More Than Just A Substance #recoveryjourney #addictionrecovery #addictiontreatment

7 Mar 2025 · 0 min

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Amber Hollingsworth explains why addiction runs deeper than the drug itself. People get hooked on the lifestyle and identity around it, the glamour and cultural story they tell themselves. That romanticized version can be harder to quit than the substance.

he likes the fast pace of it. Sometimes there's this sort of like glamorization of it, whether it's drugs or there really is when it comes to alcohol. There's this total like romantic notion about it, glamorization of it. A lot of times it's not even as much the substance that we don't want to get rid of. It's the idea of the lifestyle, the culture that surrounds it, because we've convinced ourselves that is the best lifestyle, that is the best culture, that's the way to be, and it's what you like and it's what you love.