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Rock Bottom Is Not a Motivator: From Opioid Addiction to Human Flourishing | Shiv Ayappa BA, Divya Manikandan BS, Katharine Press Callahan MD, MSE, Travis N. Rieder PhD, Michael Fingerhood MD & Margaret S. Chisolm MD | Journal of General Internal Medicine link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Rock Bottom Is Not a Motivator: From Opioid Addiction to Human Flourishing - Journal of General Internal Medicine
Background “Hitting rock bottom” is widely used in narratives of addiction and recovery. Recovery programs often assume, implicitly and explicitly, that “hitting bottom” is necessary to motivate recov...