Our inability to treat substance use disorders stems from a narrow-minded view that brains and genes are their real cause Judith Grisel is professor of psychology at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania. She is the author of Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction (2019). Edited by Pam Weintraub By the time I realised that my drug use was killing me, I was institutionalised deep in the woods of Minnesota, at least a three-day drive from home, and without a car. My 1983 Corolla, including all my stuff, had been repossessed several months earlier. I was in a treatment centre at the … Continue reading The addiction trap