Stanton and Zach review America’s allegiance to the opioids-are-inevitably-addictive scenario even though (a) it’s wrong, (b) 100,000 people a year are now dying due to drug use. But separation from our opioid-disease scenario is hard to make happen.
Instead, perhaps, we may find popular media programs that express our point of view in order to get our ideas across. The award-winning show, “I May Destroy You,” is about a millennial woman who gets in trouble with drugs, but still uses them. All kinds of drugs, in all kinds of combinations. This is far from the clinical ideal. But this woman survives — even thrives.
That woman is successful and skilled — she has a good prognosis. Zach and Stanton then imagine worst-case scenarios, where people die rather than to extricate themselves from their surroundings/habits/relationships. Radical empathy requires that we work within their cognitive framework. Suicide prevention specialists may now say to those who attempt suicide — “I understand why you want to kill yourself.”
Radical empathy.
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