Addiction

TeDTalkEverything you think you know about Addiction is Wrong

100

This is the only country to decriminalize all drugs.

Portugal

200

This is the number of rats who died in the "Rat Park" experiment.

zero

300

The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, it's this.

Connection

400

What is diamorphine?

Medically pure heroin.

500

This is how far Johan Hari traveled to find the answers to addiction.

30,000 miles

After SkoolBalance in the Age of Indulgence

100

These are what Dr. Lemke calls the negative consequences to the pleasure increase experienced by dopamine.

Gremlins

200

Painful stimulation such as an ice bath, fasting, or exercise can increase this.

Pleasure.

300

Depression has decreased over the last 20 years.

True or False

False. Depression has increased over the last 20 years.

400

Finding balance requires patience and this.

Maintenance.

500

After any deviation from neutrality our brains will work very hard to restore a level balance, also known as this

Homeostasis

TEDtalkGabor Mate on Addiction

100

A quote from Dr. Gabor Mate's patient stated, "I'm not afraid of dying, I'm more afraid of ______."

Living

200

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

300

What were all the Jewish babies doing in Budapest when the Germans were invading the country in 1944?

crying

400

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

500

"When we are kinder to ourselves, we are kinder to ____."

nature

After SkoolAddiction

100

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

200

The legal systems treats addiction as though it's this.

A choice.

300

This brain chemical is the love chemical.

Endorphins

400

Trauma is not what happens to you, it's what happens here.

Inside you

500

These 2 non-physical needs, must be met for proper development.

Authenticity and Attachment

Disease of Addiction by Carol Ackley

100

This illness has been misunderstood since 1956?

Addiction

200

They used to do this to people who were deaf?

Institutionalized them

300

This is your brain's number one job

To survive

400

Ignorance + judgement = Stigma; and stigma can do this

Stigma can kill

500

This is what your brain thinks is happening when it gets a lot of drugs.

An Orgy!