How addiction changes the brain

Carrying on from the subject of trauma...

Dr. Gabor mate discusses how those that are addicted to heavy drugs have come through generational cycles of trauma. In this video he goes on to explain how many governments have a hypocritical definition of addiction, explaining that as many Jews that died in the holocaust as have died since from tobacco smoke. Fundamentally he points out that addiction is a health problem and that treating addicts as criminals only exacerbates the financial, neurological and inter generational damage it causes.