Professor Katriona O'Sullivan

And I've stopped trying.

I've stopped trying.

And that's sad for me.

And you know what I live with now is...

sitting in the chair in the evening and then this heart racing, going, he's going to die.

And I don't even know if I'll know.

I'm like, what did someone tell me?

And then I have to go back and go, I can't do anything.

And that's the consequence of living with addiction in your family.

Apart from one.

Yeah.

There's loads of things that predict whether someone will become an addict.

So we know that trauma, poverty, childhood dysfunction.

Like oftentimes people go, well, I know that really rich fella over there and he got addicted.

But generally, we always have the odd one.

There may have been, but then there might not have been.

So occasionally you might get someone who had no difficulties that they've told you about and they become addicted.

It's, you know, we do have odd cases.

But generally people become addicted because of childhood trauma or poverty.

Poverty is one of the biggest predictors of addiction.