I've seen that. There's definitely some good truths in it.
But...
..there's a flaw right in the title.
This is in the lab.
*IF* we could change the environments they go back to AFTER they
leave the lab, then _yes_ it's -possible- to fix it.
But... I've seen people who turn to the thing that made them
happiest over and over and over again (usually it's what's
considered the harder-to-get-off-of family, which are the
opiates) - because, well, their lives suck, as far as they're
concerned.
There's _some_ truth when they say, "It's not them, it's the
drugs talking" - that's a good social lubricant to help people
not be excessively harsh on people who keeping returning to
their happy spot over and over again... especially when all they
present is criticism and blame rather than cash or other types
of happiness. But "it's the drugs talking" isn't 100% true -
it's only as true as "it's the alcohol talking"... in short,
loose lips. Wake me up from a dead sleep and I'd do the same
thing as any drug does.
Sometimes people who leave military or prison or school (not
much difference) can't cope. They're thrust out in "da world"
after being constrained by their environments and they KNEW that
environment but they don't this new one.
