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Everything you think you know about Addiction is Wrong
Everything you think you know about Addiction is Wrong
This is the only country to decriminalize all drugs.
Portugal
These are what Dr. Lemke calls the negative consequences to the pleasure increase experienced by dopamine.
Gremlins
A quote from Dr. Gabor Mate's patient stated, "I'm not afraid of dying, I'm more afraid of ______."
Living
This is any behavior that a person find relief and therefore craves in the short-term, but suffers negative consequences in the long-term and doesn't give up despite the negative consequences.
Gabor Mate's definition of Addiction
This illness has been misunderstood since 1956?
Addiction
This is the number of rats who died in the "Rat Park" experiment.
zero
Painful stimulation such as an ice bath, fasting, or exercise can increase this.
Pleasure.
If you want to understand addiction, you can't look at what's wrong with the addiction; you have to look at what's ____ about it.
right
The legal systems treats addiction as though it's this.
A choice.
They used to do this to people who were deaf?
Institutionalized them
The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, it's this.
Connection
Depression has decreased over the last 20 years.
True or False
False. Depression has increased over the last 20 years.
What were all the Jewish babies doing in Budapest when the Germans were invading the country in 1944?
crying
This brain chemical is the love chemical.
Endorphins
This is your brain's number one job
To survive
What is diamorphine?
Medically pure heroin.
Finding balance requires patience and this.
Maintenance.
When the Buddha was dying and is followers were mourning, he said to them, "don't mourn me, and don't worship me, find a lamp inside yourself, be a lamp unto yourselves, find a light _____.
within
Trauma is not what happens to you, it's what happens here.
Ignorance + judgement = Stigma; and stigma can do this
Stigma can kill
This is how far Johan Hari traveled to find the answers to addiction.
30,000 miles
After any deviation from neutrality our brains will work very hard to restore a level balance, also known as this
Homeostasis
"When we are kinder to ourselves, we are kinder to ____."
nature
These 2 non-physical needs, must be met for proper development.
Authenticity and Attachment
An Orgy!