By Korin Miller

Original Source: yahoo.com

While Lady Gaga promoted her new film, A Star Is Born, at the Toronto Film Festival, she stressed during a press conference that people struggling with addiction need compassion.

Addiction is a big topic in the movie, which follows the story of a young woman (played by Lady Gaga) who meets an alcoholic rock star (Bradley Cooper) and has a relationship with him as she becomes more famous and he struggles. “I think what would be wonderful is that we intervene early in life when we see people struggling,” Lady Gaga said during the press conference, according to Variety.

It sounds good in theory, but the early signs of addiction are “often hard to detect, getting explained away as ‘it won’t happen again’ or ‘it only happened once,’” Kevin Gilliland, PsyD, a clinical psychologist and...click here to continue reading