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