Addictions are about stasis and decay. Addictions are about being asleep on your feet. Addictions are death on a stick. Effective training programs really are about cleaning up. Wake up, stand up, shout, play, hit the ball, run the workshop, fix the car, change the diaper, make the meal, live!

There are people who give addicts heroin or methadone and claim that they then do counseling work with the buzzed client. They are more delusional than the addict. The addict, by the way, is laughing up his sleeve at the sorry Santa who is so addicted to 'helping' that he hands out free poison.