chemical or psychological, include a spiritual dimension that can only be called “demonic.”4 No matter how they start, addictions eventually center in distress and in the self-defeating choice of an agent to relieve the distress. In fact, trying to cure distress with the same thing that caused it is typically the mechanism that closes the trap on an addict—a trap that, as just suggested, might be baited with anything from whiskey to wool. But what moves an addict to the bait? At every stage, addiction
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