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Podcast: Busting Addiction and Its Myths
Episode: You Cannot Outsmart This Thing
Description: In this podcast, we illustrate how smart, sophisticated people can also fall prey to a disease that is an equal opportunity predator.We learn that:Educated, smart people have more difficulty accepting that they need help overcoming addiction than do ordinary mortals like you and me.According to the experts, this is a class of people who have developed a sophisticated defence system that creates a wall of denial as to the seriousness of their condition.There is a certain arrogance that stands in the way of surrendering their old way of thinking. They think they...