Ms. Louise Nadeau works with me; we are a team. Indeed, according to our research, there are two arguments that we make in the scientific debate on why people are resistant to current treatments and forms of intervention. It is not a matter of explaining all of the phenomena, nor suggesting that everyone is the same. Rather, we must entertain the possibility that, most likely because of the over-consumption of psychotropic drugs, there are people who suffer significant deficiencies and are less able to change their behaviour.
As such, and I'm not talking about the majority of people, there are those who almost unconsciously find a way of putting themselves in the situation to repeat a certain behaviour. Despite the sentences and fines, they will do this. Some display mental deficiencies that reduce their ability to remember treatment guidelines or apply techniques to control their alcohol consumption.
There is another more innovative piece of information. Bearing in mind our research—research always involves probabilities—some people have a way of responding to stress, which is that some experiences can cause severe anguish for some, making them feel extreme humiliation, extreme anxiety, and that is enough to convince them that they will never do the same thing in the future. This does not have the same effect on some other people. We ask ourselves the question as to why some individuals are unable to understand a clear social or legal message being sent to them by their loved ones, to the effect that they must not repeat a certain behaviour once they have been convicted. These people lack sufficient emotional memory to understand that they must change their behaviour to prevent reliving this anguish.