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"Consider, too, what activities you can engage in to express the
universal human need to be creative. Mindfully honouring our creativity
helps us transcend the feeling of deficient emptiness that drives
addiction. Not to express our creative needs is itself a source of
stress."

"As we have seen, injection drug use more often than not arises in
people who were abused and neglected as young children. The addict,
in other words, is not born but made. His addiction is the result of a
situation that he had no influence in creating. His life expresses the
history of the multigenerational family system of which he is a part, and
his family exists as part of the broader culture and society."

"The addictive personality is a personality that hasn’t matured. When we come to address healing, a key question will be how to promote maturity in ourselves or in others whose early environment sabotaged healthy emotional growth."