A truly timely and urgently needed piece. Think there’s a lot of potential overlap here with how the discourse surrounding “trauma” has turned overtly mechanical-biological as well. There may be a place for its insights insofar as they’re true and helpful, but as the *dominant* view of trauma and psychology, it overlooks the fact that all of the things about the person/people who have hurt you could very well be true, *and* you may be making things worse for yourself by how you’re responding to it.
But buprenorphine won’t make someone apologize. “Methadone won’t fix a marriage. Naltrexone won’t resurrect the person killed by a drunk driver. These medications are helpful tools, but they’re not cures, nor can they absolve wrong-doing. The gap is dark and deep that the disease model can’t bridge.”
Gotta get to self examination and accountability. Drugs won’t do that.
A truly timely and urgently needed piece. Think there’s a lot of potential overlap here with how the discourse surrounding “trauma” has turned overtly mechanical-biological as well. There may be a place for its insights insofar as they’re true and helpful, but as the *dominant* view of trauma and psychology, it overlooks the fact that all of the things about the person/people who have hurt you could very well be true, *and* you may be making things worse for yourself by how you’re responding to it.
But buprenorphine won’t make someone apologize. “Methadone won’t fix a marriage. Naltrexone won’t resurrect the person killed by a drunk driver. These medications are helpful tools, but they’re not cures, nor can they absolve wrong-doing. The gap is dark and deep that the disease model can’t bridge.”
Gotta get to self examination and accountability. Drugs won’t do that.
Good piece!