Our emotional underpinnings motivate everything we do. My step mom is a hoarder. But she’s so smart and well adjusted that I didn’t recognize it until I was an adult because everything is perfectly organized and rationalized. But the core emotional issue of not being able to throw things away is there.

The vast majority of Vietnam soldiers who used heroin overseas did not continue using heroin after coming home. They weren’t using different kinds of heroin, therefore it is the person and not the material.