ABSTRACT
When I first saw the title of the conference, “Do broken bonds and early trauma lead to addictive behaviours?”, I thought yes, of course they do, end of story. But does just the knowledge of broken bonds and early trauma help a person to stop an addiction? I thought no, not in my experience, only indirectly, there is too much history in the way. I hope I can go some way in this chapter to explain this, describe where a chemically dependent person is at when thinking of stopping and what is needed for recovery.
