Kayla Weir’s Reviews > In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction > Status Update

“And this creates addiction’s central dilemma: if recovery is to occur, the brain, the impaired organ of decision making, needs to initiate its own healing process. An altered and dysfunctional brain must decide that it wants to overcome its own dysfunction”

“Thus, we might say that three factors need to coincide for substance addiction to occur: a susceptible organism; a drug with addictive potential; and stress. ”

“The fundamental addiction is to the fleeting experience of not being addicted.”

“I am prone to that human—but inhumane—failing of defining and categorizing people according to our interpretation of their behaviors. Our ideas and feelings about a person congeal around our limited experience of them, and around our judgments.”