Human connection as the opposite of addiction

More people paid my attention to this article and I think that the point Johann Hari makes is very good. The sense of belonging is desperately needed if someone  quits addiction.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html
Czech translation:

http://archetypal.cz/2015/johann-hari-the-likely-cause-of-addiction/

Marketa, part 2: Leaving heroin after the death of my friend

Still locked in my past. No awareness of trauma. The urge to use heroin. To try it. Yoga exercise after the first dose. Then several attempts to get drug free. Interesting experience for several months but then it was the same, stereotypical. I need to change my life totally. My friend died after sniffing heroin. And it was the last impulse for me. I flew to New Zealand. Spent all my money. Desperate. Then I hitchhiked and a a guy took me to his farm. He was ex-junkie, ex-criminal, ex-dealer. And I lived with him for three months. He was a kind of a shaman. After leaving the farm, it was definitive. And there was also the ayurveda teacher. He explained me that I can reach those positive experiences of drug even without the drug. The feeling that you cannot stop using, it is illusion.

Companions on the Journey of Recovery

After posting my previous video, Samuel Mahaffy, a colleague from Taos Institute, sent me this link where he also emphasises the importance of relationships in recovery:

Companions on the Journey of Recovery

Thanks, Samuel!