Well, I think the two can be related. People use drugs to escape painful things as well. Any program with any merit would do what I think we both would want them to do, which is encourage self-healing.
Any program worth its weight in salt is nowhere near a pity party.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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