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The role of agency in addiction

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The role of agency in addiction

Clementine Morrigan
Jun 19, 2023
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Lance Dodes has a different understanding of addiction than the one I learned about in AA. Lance Dodes believes that addiction is a response to the overwhelming feeling of helpless rage.

According to Lance, addicts are people who learned at a certain point that intervening on their own behalf was ineffective or even dangerous. They learned to repress the…

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