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title: Addiction can’t always be cured so let’s focus on quality of life | SMART Recovery Australia
description: From the Conversation, 10th Oct 2013, by David Best  Click here to read
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# [Addiction can’t always be cured so let’s focus on quality of life | SMART Recovery Australia](https://smartrecoveryaustralia.com.au/blog/problematic-behaviour-cant-always-be-cured-so-lets-focus-on-quality-of-life)

 Written by [smart recovery](https://smartrecoveryaustralia.com.au/blog/author/smart-recovery) | Sep 03, 2015

From the Conversation, 10th Oct 2013, by David Best

[Click here to read](https://theconversation.com/addiction-cant-always-be-cured-so-lets-focus-on-quality-of-life-14123)

[View full post](https://smartrecoveryaustralia.com.au/blog/problematic-behaviour-cant-always-be-cured-so-lets-focus-on-quality-of-life)

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