Addiction is an issue close to my heart and so I want to share this article with you guys, I felt so happy when I read it as it consolidates how my understanding of addiction has evolved over the last couple of years and it's great to see a structured language and conceptual framework being applied to what were pretty clear ideas floating about and evolving inside my head.

I've been studying (amateur style with self-help books!) attachment theory, also about therapy and healing with ayahuasca, and been trying to learn about trauma and how the body stores and manifests stress and illness. The book "Chasing the Scream" by Johann Hari with his great stories about Rat Park and Vietnam and Portugal etc. that have appeared in various video memes, really started to crystallize for me how addiction operates. The Dr. Daniel Sumrok in this article really gets it as far as I'm concerned, and I'm so excited to see that he has a vision of opening more clinics and trying to change the dominant paradigm about drug addiction in the US... if he succeeds the possible positive knock-on effects for other countries is very exciting!! Errr, not wanting to be rude, but let's just say that some countries might be afraid to decriminalise drugs for fear that they may suddenly be seen by certain governments as needing a sudden dose of freedom. Ahem.

So here's hoping that the human version of Rat Park, with happy hugging cuddling chums is coming to a society near you!

Read here:

Aces to High!!

![huggingRats.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPbvo9aBQaWMieXYU9vbyxRQgLgaYKc135Je4jopbbG45/huggingRats.jpg) (credit to modthesims.info for the cute pic!)