Suffering: The foundation of addiction

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The origin of addiction often will begin with suffering. Whether it is psychological, physical, emotional, the path to addiction often will begin with some type of suffering, and to completely oversimplify what our drug of choice does to those of us that become addicts is that it relieves that suffering. The majority of addicts are in some type of pain that we cannot cope with, and when we use it takes that pain away. The…