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“...he realized they had stumbled upon the gravest and most costly public health issue in the [US]: child abuse. He had calculated that its overall costs exceeded those of cancer or heart disease and that eradicating child abuse in America would reduce the overall rate of depression by more than half, alcoholism by two-thirds, and suicide, IV drug use, and domestic violence by three quarters. It would also have a dramatic effect on workplace performance and vastly decrease the need for incarceration.”

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Book:Bertram The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma Paperback – 8 September 2015
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“Medications can be very useful in giving traumatized people a firmer foothold in the present, but they do not teach the lasting lessons of self-regulation. Most of us in the trauma field have seen how a reliance on drugs alone does little to alter the core issues of trauma.”

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Book:The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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