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Always good to put these ideas out there -- thanks. Here are the worst four things about Gabor's work with the most oppressed drug users - bless him: (1) His theory of addiction is based on them, then generalized towards everybody, getting further and further from his truth -- like that drug that works for x, and is then used for anyone with any condition resembling it, (2) your statement that I am "dismissing the role of childhood trauma" is so bereft of meaning that it questions any claims you might have to integrity -- interacting with those individuals, you realize their lives have been deeply imprinted by a whole host of social and psychological conditions that won't be remedied by sitting down with Gabor and his ilk to locate their personal traumas -- we are talking primarily of social conditions, that can only be approached at the societal level; (3) Gabor is able to claim he is harm reductionist because he recognizes these people as humans -- God bless Gabor -- but Gabor is a person inexperienced with, and antithetical towards, ordinary drug use -- he is essentially an opponent of recognizing the range of use of drugs such as as meth, cocaine, and heroin -- their use means for him drug addiction; (4) Gabor's burden of abuse/trauma is simply another albatross around the necks of people who have encountered problems in life (notice how Gabor backtracks when -- after saying that people have essential brain changes due to trauma, he says that, yes, people can recover, often on their own). You need to sit down and asks yourself, "Where does my advocacy for Gabor and putting down Peele lead to?" You are actually coalescing with a convenient mass of opinion (Gabor is a thousand times more influential than I am) in a way that essentially perpetuates and spreads addiction -- but it makes you feel good -- congratulations! Join Gabor's army, you'll always be in a majority within a minority of people who claims to care about remedying addiction, but you are a fake.