Claiming one’s addiction is always an intensely personal experience, and it is well known in the recovery world that no one can make that determination for someone else.  That being said, a summer course on Addiction and the Human Brain here at The Family Foundation School presented students with the information that science can accurately and appropriately assign to the experiences with substance abuse and other addictive behaviors.

Learning about the categories of intoxication, abuse and dependency, and seeing how one after another, the students fit the criteria for these behaviors gave many of the students pause, effectively pushes into the denial of the seriousness of their journey, helping them reassess the question “I’m I an addict?” .