I wonder, in this case, if we're putting the cart before the horse. When we look at any sort of illness, when you want to treat it, you have to look at the root cause. That's what we're taught. If you really want to cure it, you have to look at the root cause. When you look at mental illness, it's not something that just arrives out of the sky. There are lots of deep, complex, intertwined causes for it.
Working in addictions for the last seven to eight years, I've yet to see somebody with severe substance use disorder who did not have some very difficult, traumatic childhood experiences or adverse childhood events, to varying degrees. They impact your ability to cope—your coping mechanisms and all that.
When we're talking about readiness, I think before our treatments...we're probably not even there.