Argo: I'm no expert on the science either, just relaying what I've discovered. It's all very confusing. I griped earlier in this thread about medicalizing mental illness, and now I'm mentioning medical factors -- though in a way that is quite different from psychiatry's vague broken brain narrative. I understand your perspective. I mostly saw it that way until recent years. Didn't know about the junkie thing, not trivial, i can relate a bit.

Drugs dominate the conversation and that disturbs me to no end. Pharma medicine has become the big bully, kicking sand in the face of every other approach. It's big and powerful, but also incredibly stupid and unsophisticated and dangerous. Sure, in a crisis maybe drugs are the thing. But even then people ought to be able to question it without having to face such violent opposition.