So people who are severely traumatized in childhood can measure the level of inflammatory particles in their bloodstream. They’ll be abnormally high, which makes them more at risk for cancer, more at risk for autoimmune disease, more at risk for depression, mental health problems, and so on. Trauma can affect the way genes are turned…
In the realm of child development, I just wish we’d actually looked at the evidence, but we don’t. I worked in family practice for 32 years—12 of them with hardcore drug addicts, and the other 20 in a straightforward family practice. During those years, I found that the people who got sick and the people…
As a medical doctor, I worked with some very addicted people—people who use heroin, cocaine, alcohol, crystal meth, and every drug known to man. These people suffer. They lose their health, their beauty, their teeth, their wealth, their human relationships, and in the end, they often lose their lives. And yet, nothing can force them…