Trauma and Addictive Behavior: Treating both

Monday, June 15th, 2009

There is an interconnection of trauma and addictive behavior, often becoming an unending cycle. Emotional and psychological pain so often lead to self-medicating, which leads to more pain, and inevitably more self-medicating, and so on. The research connecting trauma and addiction, provides support for the specialized trauma therapy in addition to 12 step addiction treatment.