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A podcast and a comment on a London Tube line one morning made me acutely aware of the disconnect in how we discuss addiction.
The podcast was an episode of Empathy for the Devil featuring mental health and addiction specialists compassionately exploring the struggles and death of Rolling Stones member Brian Jones through the lens of his childhood, environment and trauma. The comment was a muttered word, “junkie”, directed at a man asking for money in our carriage. That word overshadowed the more profound questions in the podcast: What led this man to his situation? How was a complex…
