24/02/2026
Addiction is not a drug or alcohol problem, it's an isolation problem. People who have bonded with chemical substances are lacking the social bonds that help them feel contentment, safety, and the joy of belonging to someone or many someones. Just look at the turmoil the baby macaque monkey Punch-kun had to go through! if there were he**in there, it would make itself an addict just to feel the relief from being ostracized and alone.
There's an interesting experiment in the 70s conducted by a psychologist called Rat Park. In the experiment, a group of rats were isolated in a cage and given water sippers laced with morphine and plain water, while in a much bigger cage, social rats were allowed to roam, eat, have s*x and socialize and were given water sippers with both morphine and regular water.
The isolated rats became addicted to the morphine-laced water and some even died. On the other hand, the socially bonded rats hardly chose the morphine water if not for an occasional recreational hit.
All in all, we don't need addiction recovery, we need social recovery. Families are so misaligned with our evolutionary nature to be in social bonds and are instead, pre-occupied with technology, making money and doing everything else above and beyond reconnecting and really being there for troubled members of the family or even the young, the weak, the sick, the injured, the elderly. We've forgotten that we are all caregivers by nature and that we in turn, also need to receive care, in order to thrive.
Let's nurture our nature to connect. Let's re-nest ourselves within our families and communities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNeSkyHccmo
Team this view with pages 12 and 13 of your workbook. (Kurzgesagt Archived Video)
