Decolonising Psychotherapy: Rethinking Addiction

The dominant treatment protocols for addiction are steeped in a punitive, pathologising model—one that sees the individual as the problem, the behaviour as the illness, and abstinence as the only cure. It is a framework that aligns disturbingly well with the global “war on drugs”—a war waged not on substances, but on people, disproportionately those who are poor, racialised, and already marginalised.

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