Part I: Hellbound train --
The only home he's ever had --
The lethal hold of drugs --
The keys of paradise: Addiction as a flight from distress --
You wouldn't believe my life story --
Beethoven's birth room --
There's got to be some light --
Part II: Physician, heal thyself --
Twelve-step journal: April 5, 2006 --
Part III: A different state of the brain --
From Vietnam to "Rat Park": Do drugs cause addiction? --
A different state of the brain --
Through a needle, a warm, soft hug --
Cocaine, dopamine, and candy bars: The incentive system in addiction --
Like a child not released --
Part IV: How the addicted brain develops --
Their brains never had a chance --
Trauma, stress, and the biology of addiction --
Part V: The addiction process and the addictive personality --
"A void I'll do anything to avoid" --
Too much time on external things: The addiction-prone personality --
Poor substitutes for love: Behavioral addictions and their origins --
Part VI: Imagining humane reality: Beyond the war on drugs --
The social roots of addiction --
"Ignorant fanaticism": The failed war on drugs --
Freedom of choice and the choice of freedom ---
Toward an enlightened social policy on drugs --
Part VII: The ecology of healing --
The power of compassionate curiousity --
The four steps, plus one --
Sobriety and the external milieu --
A word to families, friends, and caregivers --
There is nothing lost: Addiction and the spiritual quest --