How to Have Compassion for Addicts

Let’s start by saying that labeling people as “addicts” is problematic. It blames individuals for the choices they were limited to due to systemic societal problems. That’s been my perspective since grad school, when my degree problem had a lot of overlapping coursework with the addictions counseling program. This article started out as a Reddit comment when someone in <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChronicPain/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">/r/ChronicPain</a> asked for help being more sympathetic to addicts. Did you know there’s a character limit on Reddit comments? I found out, which is why this article exists. It’s more a series of hypothetical vignettes of the diverse life experiences that can lead a person down the path of addiction. The vignettes are fictional, but archetypical of actual living people who end up addicted to drugs or alcohol. <a href="https://karistinalafae.medium.com/how-to-have-compassion-for-addicts-905e7d9933f9">Click Here</a>