Recovery Elevator | Stop Drinking, Start Recovering. | Alcohol, Addiction & Life In Sobriety

Today we have Walter, with 2½ years since his last drink.   Today's Sponsor: Café RE Use the promo code CONNECT for one free month in the alcohol-free community Café RE.  The Cure to Addiction… Is it possible?  Are we close to a cure?  No.  AA was founded in 1935, and since then we still don't know what causes it or how to treat it.  A holistic cure will attack/treat the root causes.   The Rat Park experiment by Bruce Alexander points to the conclusion that the causes of addiction are social and environmental, rather than genetics or chemical dependency.  In the study, the addictive tendencies were eliminated when the stress was reduced and the environment changed.  Johann Hari's Ted Talk says that the opposite of addiction isn't sobriety, it's connection.  Addiction is not about the pleasurable effects of substances, rather it is a symptom of the user's inability to form deep connections with other human beings.  The phenomena that is addiction will likely die out in a global community whose only borde