Beginning With Fire
The Story of Addiction, Human Nature, and Evolution
Chapter Sketches
Section Two
Dissolutions
Addiction is all about moving from fulfillment of longings to pain.
The double-entendre of
the section heading, “dissolutions,” is very much intended.
Over time the solutions to the problem of self provided by control begin
to dissolve — to diminish in efficacy. Meanwhile, there is an accompanying
deterioration of the integrity of the “self” that has embraced
the control solution, leading to a state of being dissolute (“lacking
in moral restraint; degenerate, degraded, dissipated;” etc.).
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As the global toll of our individual and societal addictions and addictive behaviors continues to mount, it becomes ever more crucial to explore new ways of thinking about addiction. Drawing on decades of personal and professional experience with addiction and sobriety, Roget Lockard makes a unique and distinctive contribution to that end...
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