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Stories around dependency frequently lower it to a series of bad options, absence of worths and weak point. This has real-world repercussions, cautions Anna Wolfe
By Anna Wolfe
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A podcast and a discuss a London Tube line one early morning made me acutely familiar with the detach in how we talk about dependency.
The podcast was an episode of Compassion for the Devil including psychological health and dependency professionals compassionately checking out the battles and death of Rolling Stones member Brian Jones through the lens of his youth, environment and injury. The remark was a muttered word, “addict”, directed at a guy requesting cash in our carriage. That word eclipsed the more extensive concerns in the podcast: What led this guy to his circumstance? How was a complex …
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