En cherchant des informations sur l'addiction je suis tombé sur une palabre intéressante que je soumets ici à votre attention (sorry c'est en anglais et j'ai un peu la flemme de traduire) :  

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Amazon.com Exclusive: A Letter from Gabor Maté Dear Amazon.com readers, [img=http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images../../../randoEMS/Gabor_Mate4_sm.jpg" border="0]" align="right[/img] I've written In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts because I see addiction as one of the most misunderstood phenomena in our society. People--including many people who should know better, such as doctors and policy makers--believe it to be a matter of individual choice or, at best, a medical disease. It is both simpler and more complex than that. Addiction, or the capacity to become addicted, is very close to the core of the human experience. That is why almost anything can become addictive, from seemingly healthy activities such as eating or exercising to abusing drugs intended for healing. The issue is not the external target but our internal relationship to it. Addictions, for the most part, develop in a compulsive attempt to ease one's pain or distress in the world. Given the amount of pain and dissatisfaction that human life engenders, many of us are driven to find solace in external things. The more we suffer, and the earlier in life we suffer, the more we are prone to become addicted. The inner city drug addicts I work with are amongst the most abused and rejected people amongst us, but instead of compassion our society treats them with contempt. Instead of understanding and acceptance, we give them punishment and moral disapproval. In doing so, we fail to recognize our own deeply rooted problems and thereby forego an opportunity for healing not only for them, the extreme addicts, but also for ourselves as individuals and as a culture. My book, in short, is an attempt to bring light to core issues shrouded in darkness. The many positive responses I've received encourage me to believe that I've succeeded in making a contribution toward that goal. Best wishes, Gabor Maté