The Craving Brain: Neuroscience of Uncontrollable Urges
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2014
- When we try to get rid of a bad habit, whether it involves food or drugs or gambling, it often seems like we're fighting ourselves inside. The reality's not far off: Addiction twists the reward pathways of the brain to keep addicts tied to whatever gets them high. But can we use our knowledge of the brain to undo these neurological knots? Watch psychiatrist Nora Volkow, chemist Kim Janda, and neuroscientists Eric Nestler and Amir Levine explain the latest thinking in the science of addiction in the mind in "The Craving Brain".
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Original Program date: May 31, 2014
Host: Elizabeth Vargas
Participants: Nora D. Volkow, Kim D. Janda, Eric Nestler, Amir Levine
Elizabeth Vargas's Introduction. 00:11
Drug addiction and every day life. 1:54
Participant Introductions. 5:41
What is the state of addiction in U.S.? 8:30
Are memories formed under the influence more vivid? 14:20
Will the brain go back to normal if addicts quit? 20:25
Can you look at a brain and determine if they will be an addict? 27:47
The facts of gateway drugs and adolescence. 35:11
Is it easier to quit an addiction if you are younger? 43:40
The heroin vaccine. 49:58
Is heroin the most addictive drugs? 58:04
Big pharmacy and the bottom line. 1:05:52
The social stigma of addiction. 1:09:50
How do you break the addiction cycle? 1:22:30 
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Is there a transcript available of the full talk to aid in captioning the video? I would love to help get english subtitles available!
Please add caption in video
Not only a stigma but a conflict of interest with these drug companies that spend millions lobbying and making opiate drugs that pad their bottom line to the tune of billions. Addiction to Heroin is the worst sentence you could put on anyone. What Hitler did is atrocious but not as bad as the suffering an addicts has to slowly die from.
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*Please read especially if pregnancy*
Oksy....
*Sounds also like Suboxone or subutex
My to take more than a couple of milligrams of Suboxone etc...
that or a strength of 8mg and an narcane in it..
you cannot really feel the effects of an oxides viciously etc..herion... even if it's past 30 40 50 mg..the pill form of these opioids....it took a little bit more Dilaudid when I was in real severe pain ..
to eventually kick in or "override the Suboxone..?etc..
They also do not mentioned ..how if you gir real pain how to over ride a drug like Suboxone
.so that I don't understand..
*This please read plus remember*
*But when I had a C-section*
and took Subutex while pregnancy.
I thought the C-section they help me though pain...aahhh the doctor plus nurse staff did not...
I felt that knife..med tool.
cutting into my stomach area...it was traumatizing ....2.2011 it happened..in usa...so.oersonally me ..
so I would not recommend being on this Suboxone etc if ..you're going to have a C-section.. if your pregnant!
Or an error surgery..sooo..?!?
Because It hurted like.
Hell..
I'm still not "aright after this .. and it was weird because this was my seventh pregnancy and my most difficult one not to mention painful and took me longer to recover mentally and physically! Personally mentally with more now I just had no muscles in a flabby stomach even if I lose weight.. And no feel around that area above the pubic area it's numb.. And with the trauma of no meds.. And knowing it was the 21st century really hurted my head and messed with me.. And because of that I reached out for help with Catholic Charities they got in touch with CPS next thing I know I have my family just spotted by them to learn more about that look up..
*The Corrupt Business of*
*Children Protective Services*
*By Senator Nancy Schaefer *
So what a mess.. just to have a baby..
And a family.🍀💔🥲👶🍀
. I'm not sorry ..aboutbthe baby..
I'm just sorry ..
how it gets all mixed up.
*By CORRUPT CPS*
Now I got to fix it.
That's my life's Goal...
Peace
I ruined my life by failing to notice my addictive behaviour and wish i had more knowledge on the subject. I hope i can beat addiction and i believe that talking about the horrible life is important. It can attack anyone, i don't want anyone to feel like this especially through naivety or false pretences or being cool.
Stay up
Man i am 17. And student. What do i tell my mom
@@adhamomar2868 start with the truth, it's your family. They will help if you want help.
Share it my freind it’s the best thing I did sharing with my immediate family as my disease didn’t want me to share it Yiur still a young lad & don’t let yah age give u the licence to use it’s progresses that’s been my story so I’m talking about myself it’s a beast of a disease which Iv learnt recently it is a disease runs in family more then liquid drug stay strong & wish u all the best & happiness u have especially if u stay clean. 😊
@Movers Diggers been there my friend, you can move past it. It doesn't last forever.
Dopamine is what keeps us alive and depressed too.
I enjoyed this very much but I wished the interviewer didn't interrupt the interviewed scientists so often and with a louder voice.
I know it's hella annoying
So annoying. But a really good conversation.
I agree it is so frustrating when she interrupts without having her thought formed yet so she stops there train of thought without even knowing what she's talking about yet it's very frustrating I can appreciate that she's asking questions from a personal experience point of view with examples of addicts that she has spoken with at the same time it directs the discussion narrowly to what she thinks about it and supposed to letting them discuss more broadly
I know, throwing a wine mom at a science panel was probably not the best choice.
I think that the interviewer should interrupt. Not that much though., But That's their job! You know?! they have to Interview, hence, they have to put questions and interact with the interviewed.
I´m sober from alcohol 18 years and now I´m having a crush on Elizabeth Vargas
Why don't you invite her out for a drink?
🤣😂sweet
The facilitator's constant labeling of people as either "normal" or "addicts" is really stigmatizing and it is a real shame none of these scientists educated her to the fact that substance abuse affects humans, and labeling people just reinforces the idea that people who suffer from substance abuse are different and "other."
Well then how would she refer to the people who uses it vs those that aren't... Like always say "those people who uses drugs"? That's so long... Addict is a short form... And if they have guts to take the drugs.. Should have the courage to be called an addict... Geez its not adding salt or fire... What else to call them otherwise....
Drug addiction is not a chronic disease - it’s not a disease at all - addiction is a response to chronic unhappiness - and that unhappiness may be caused by the brains inability to get enough dopamine to feel good. Basically, addiction is a brain disorder in which the brain craves dopamine. It’s not a disease at all. People who get sufficient dopamine normally don’t need drugs to get “high”.
Drugs make even a normal person feel better than they ever could without drugs,,,
Thank you for posting the original program date and time stamps. It's important for referencing, especially for academic work. Aside from the interviewer who keeps calling people "addicts", this is a solid resource for clients.
Awesome! Drastically needed. Keep up the good work and persistence.
I notice it mentions smoking and drinking. for me drinking was my first, then i smoked weed. i had the occasional cigs, but they were menthols. i know every person is different, but it just shows there's a general path and various circumstances that can lead to addiction. Thank you for having these type of lectures. my first drink i want to say i was either 18 or 19.
Excellent discussion
Nora Volkow, I must say to listen to you and to hear your research and what you're doing, is quite exceptional. I admire you & your passion, drive, and just ah struck at how incredibly intelligent in intellectual you are on this very complex illness. Merci beaucoup madem.
1. drug addicts eventually LIVE IN MISERY 2. in their addiction they do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING except use their drug trying to feel normal 3. their drug of choice doesnt work or has a very slight effect, leaving them depressed 4. after getting clean, it takes a very long time to create natural endorphins, so they get very little joy out of life, leaving them with no options but to relapse, if triggered 5. loved ones avoid them, leaving them UTTERLY ALONE, ashamed, a slave to their drug and very very sick! addiction is horrible and involves a death before you die!
Jo Goode I have been working for 16 straight years and using alcohol and other snacks for 15 years I believe every brain is different and reacts on different ways you can diagnostic a person using the same method is my thinking maybe am wrong maybe am totally lost mental illness is very convincent to throw to the trash a opinion of a person with not university education.
Nope. The *SHAME MODEL* (Sheriff Joe Arpiao of AZ infamy) doesnt _fucking_ work.
Jo Goode, I've an issue with point 2. While that may be true for many, it is not true for all. For example, I completed a PhD, followed by a career in academia. I agree that addiction is horrible, and I dont know what your personal experience is, but please do not generalise.
Point 5 doesn't have to be completely true. As one of them mentioned, it is a chronic disease, an addict can live through aware of this debilitating thing they live with, while bettering themselves, & their relationships with loved ones. Love & a feeling of intimacy is so so important
well said
GREAT VIDEO THOUGH, I'M WATCHING AGAIN
What I like about this You Tube above all else, besides being a big fan of all of these people is when Amir Levine said that addiction is being looked at more and more as a developmental disorder. The more I work in the addiction field, the more and more I see the etiology of almost all addiction is trauma (I.e. either multi-generational, pre, pari-natal, attachment wounding, "t" or "T" trauma, family systems that are both disengaged and inflexible. I'm a big fan of Dr. Bruce Alexander's "Dislocation Theory" of Addiction in that he believes the NIDA and ASAM definition is too narrow; this issue (addiction) runs deep; into the very fabric of the way most of Western Society's core economic engine. I do see addiction as developmental dis-ease and it is a symptom of masking a collective trauma.
Good comment. Thanks for sharing. I'll look into Dr. Bruce Alexander's research. Do you have any of your research I can reference? Since I've sobered up and changed my environment, my recovery has been so far very successful. I've been spending a lot of my time researching the brain.
One thing I liked about the video are the staggering statistics and the explanation of how our DNA is loosely coupled until around age 25 (based on observations with rats). But, it makes since how a child under the age of 18 can easily fall into addiction when first time experience is a distorted type of relief/reward feeling. Natural rewards begin to deteriorate over time because addicts become so delusional. From my experience of being addicted to alcohol for many years and just like the video in the beginning of Seth sharing his experience while using, the powerlessness is astonishing because we know the drugs are killing us, yet we still crave them and use no matter what the outcome.
I'm very grateful today that I can work my program that keeps me sober and continue to learn so much about how the brain works. It's became a hobby of mine. I have replaced alcohol with education, helping others, and learning from professionals as such as in this video.
Eric Belsterling Dr Gabor Mate has a lot of research on exactly what you are saying. You will be interested I think in looking him up on RUclips or his website
Osho
what are your views on the disease concept ?
Bingo. A fellow time traveler! Sadly, your comment is about 15 years too early, but naturally your observation isn't just 100% correct, but it's also a brilliant & concise summary of what will *absolutely assuredly* be discovered & accepted as the true "missing piece" of addiction research. This piece will be critical for explaining the root cause of addiction, and more importantly, treating & curing it in the future (about 15 years away)
Of course, the bummer is historians won't discover this - the actual, factual root cause of addiction - until well after Western Civilization implodes; but as the saying goes: "The Cause is the Cure."
Addiction is a consequence of a *TREMENDOUS* failure in familial, parental & societal culture; more commonly known as "community."
Addiction is a result of the trauma humans endure without community.
The Neuroscientists have done their part. The Biologists, Therapists...everyone on this side of the coin has found their piece. The missing piece hangs on the pride of the leaders who shape society - from politicians to parents. It hangs on them having the humility, awareness & the guts to admit they failed...
And that goes *exactly* as well as you'd imagine. Good luck, people of former West. *Transmission End*
Everyone is trying to fill a hole, and that hole has feelings.
The irony of that statement cracked me up
maybe we just need to _feel_ the whole
whole / hole, whatever heh
The only thing that fills the void is Jesus
you must be kidding !
People say there's no blood test for addiction so therefore it's not a disease and addicts should get their shit together but neither can you quantify or objectively isolate willpower. Telling someone in the throes of addiction to use their willpower to stop abusing is like telling someone to use their willpower to stop breathing. Sure you can summon all the willpower in the world but there's no way most people would last much more than 30-40 seconds before the urge to breathe became unbearable. So much for willpower.
The Pain we still Feel.... 44 yrs since I started my Journey... 16 yrs old ACOA.. to N.A. to A.A and now WOW.. truly addicted again
What is ACOA and WOW?
That was awesome information 👍
(At 35 minutes) Nicotine and cocaine both work on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the neuromuscular junction where “loosening muscles” is a more accurate description of what happens than “ loose dna”. Correlation doesn’t equal causation. The prefrontal cortex is still forming before “25” which controls executive functions and inhibition. Whereas the reward center of the brain that is involved in addiction is already formed. Teens just can’t control their impulses. You start smoking as a teen your likely stressed from a bad family situation (or other environment issues). Smoking relaxes muscles tightened during the fight or flight response. If that response stays on (because life sucks) muscles stay tense. External factors and not internal factors are more likely contribute to the changes in the development of the mind. Teens tending to “snow” ball into adulthood because of the same affect on the same receptors. Statistical analysis indicates that experimental use as a teenager does not lead to addiction in most circumstances. When it does it is in a person who has problems that began the abuse in the first place.
World Science Festival - please turn closed caption on to make this accessible!! I'm so surprised that this isn't captioned.
Very useful one 🙏🏻🖤
So many important questions are overlooked. like brain trauma during younger ages, there is A lot of talk about shaken baby syndrome, but what happens to the baby when he turns 50 years old? And how will it affect is addiction?
I started smoking cigarets when I was 11. When I was 12, me and my two friends started smoking marijuana but we were not in any problems or anxiety or insecurities, we were just interested in music,prog rock and classical music. My friends played guitars and I played drums. But, when I was about 19, 20. I started drinking. Very fast I came to more or less 2 litres of vodka a day. After less than two years I was practically ruined so I went to hospital and they helped me to stop drinking. Time was flaying so fast I don't remeber much from that time. When I stopped drinking I concetrated on playing drums, praticed more than 6 hours a day and become pretty good. Played in many groups for next 20 years. But, 5 years go I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. I can barely walk now, let alone play drums. I told all about my abuse of nicotine, weed and alcohol to my doctors but they said to me that there is probably no connection. With multiple sclerosis I'm just like dead, now I smoke more then ever,drink sometimes, I just don't care anymore. But I played much much better when I was sober. Remember that.
Maybe u should do more research if u believe ur use of the substance lead to MS....the doctors are not ur servant... Most of them just want money.. So if you want discover what causes your MS, you have a better chance if you do the research yourself.
Thanks
Well, it's 2017 and so far nothing has changed.
Bad news. It's still nothing different
Not a thing
wow I learned so much today...its such an enlightening talk. thank you.
I would like to see some addicts represented in this discussion, on stage and part of the discussion.
The more you know the more the puzzle grows in complexities and variations
She asked the right questions. Good Job!
Predicament should be faced boldly.
I am curious about your information on brain recovery after a few years of Meth and alcohol abuse. My dr. at the time was able to tell me that my brain should stabilize in 18 months. I returned to work, stabilized and sober (not even Ativan) in 20 months. In my case I also have Bi-polar and Aspergers syndromes diagnosed in my 20's. Other than social drinking I had no previous substance abuse prior to this. After adding the substance abuse I stopped working ( I was working as an RN in Labor/NICU) and found a new (incredible) Psych. named Lindheimer, one of the original Dr.'s testing lithium He's no longer with us. He specialized in substance abuse as well for over 40 years before he partially retired. So he didn't guess at recovery time, he knew from experience. Maybe reviewing his work will add to your work.
Interested in learning more on Heroine vaccination. Without knowing the MOA of such a vaccine... but does it block just the prodrug form of morphine not the chemical structure of other narcotics (morphine, fentanyl, etc.) Would they be able to receive narcotics for pain after injury or anesthesia during surgery?
Great discussion, lots of information, too bad this is an issue that seems to generate more money than a cure would. Knowing "just say no" is not an option hasn't impacted the world yet, but that's the truth of the matter. Party on Dudes, be good to each other.
I love intelligent questions of the host
She is an alcoholic herself.. you should look up the interview with her where she tells her story.. its life-changing.
Elizabeth Vargas is her name
There should be more research on ibogaine, it totally eliminates withdrawals and cravings are almost non existent. RFor every disease there is a cure out there.
Thanks; have you tried it, and what addiction were you able to address? Pls give us some more details on your process & experience; thanks!
@@Iamthepossum I have yes. It was quite expensive and difficult to get hold of here in the UK. This was around three years ago theres a couple of videos on you tube if you watch them you will get an idea of how it works.
I can never finished this. Because I an a Moreon. but I keep listening to try to understand.
I get the whole attempting to laugh about some of this stuff to ease the seriousness and lighten the mood, but its really not funny at all...this is serious shit for the people and families experiencing it. So there is really no reason to laugh while doing this program to try and lighten the seriousness, because the seriousness is the element that makes people take these issues seriously as they should be. This shit is no joke. This country needs help in resolving the problem and not doing so by arresting and jailing addicts, or scolding or making them hit "rock bottom", or cutting them off of certain prescriptions by the presrcibing docotor because those ways will not work, will never work, and havent been working. Its simple, just like thay saying: "You attract more bees with honey, rather than vinegar." Its the same concept of treating addicts or alcoholics. They need compassion, connection, understanding, and getting to the underlying issues that caused them to use these chemicals to self medicate in the first place....
I agree...weird how she was laughing.
Yeah, that was rough. I usually love these videos but this one seemed a bit weird because of the host’s attitude at times.
We need more research and possibly a cure for methamphetamine addiction. The problem isn't just about opiates and alcohol.
There is no cure for addiction. It's chronic and fatal.
Ibogaine
Meth is just too good why would anyone not want to be on it 24,7?
Absolutelythe Brain can heal.. meditation brings you back.. Pain.. only if your Attention can Stay with you..
How can we get more people from indigenous, African, hip hop generationz communities involved as leaders in helping to expand awareness for this?
I think its all about the balance.
No way to buy the video, dvd, vhs?
I wish the panel would use person-centered language. They spent a lot of time talking about stigma, but the disease centered language is part of the stigmatization.
I can see going both ways on this one. People are not defined by their addiction, but stating "I am an addict" is often a very crucial step in the recovery process. Saying, "I am a person with an addiction" doesn't quite have the same level of acknowledgement of the severity of the problem.
I agree theirs a gap between adolescents and adult.around 30 most aquier a change called man sense. I've been an addict for 20 years. Addiction boils down to level of anxiety.
Gabor Mate says "its a myth that drugs are addictive" drug in themselves are not addictive just like food is not addictive but for some it is ,,,shopping is not addictive but for some it is,,, most people that use most drugs never become addicted...some people are vulnerable to addiction
i suppose what is meant by it is the specific drug alters the cells to an extent where tollerance is developed then withdrawal symptoms appear upon discontinuation, that is addiction by definition but then there is psycological craving or addiction. It doesn't matter who it is, if you give them Heroin every day for a year then stop, they will go into withdrawal.
Drugs are not addictive,,, people are addicted to drugs,,, the problem is in the user,, drugs are fine being by itself,,,
@@lightbeingpontifex yeah I agree with you. I would say it is the person that is the problem but people just mean ''drugs have a potential for allowing the user to become psychologically or physiologically dependant''
The science of addiction hasn't been integrated into our healthcare system. It is too political because it goes to who and what we are at our cores as human beings and many resent the implications. For example, to many the suggestion that our morality resides in or is powerfully tied to biological circuitry is unacceptable, especially those of us that mix our religion with our politics. Governors have refused to institute needle exchange programs or support Suboxone treatment even when HIV, Hep C, and overdose rates that clamor for these programs.
+Carlos Fierro Why would they support Suboxone treatment. There is already Methadone treatment. What's the difference?
stabiljka the difference is HUGE! not only in that you can live normal, avoid a clinic and get your medication monthly just like anything else, but also in how it effects your body physically. I'm a fan of both but they are not the same or even close
It doesn't help when the Catholic Church still regards addiction as a moral disorder, ie a sin - an extension of the Mortal Sin of Gluttony in fact.
Stress, all forms of abuse, neglect, overstepping boundaries, violence and trauma are mental and emotional as well as physical traumas. These experiences can be overwhelming when a child feels they have no ability to protect themselves. These abuses that are repeated rewire the brain. Escapism and numbing oneself is a form of self regulation.
Genetics plays a role somewhat but not a main factor. It’s how ones mind simulates an escape or copes someone’s circumstances that is slightly genetic.
Food with additives, hormones and enhancements as well as other toxic substances/chemicals/prescription drugs and sugars are the initial gateway drugs to addiction.
It’s habits, environmental factors. Family dynamics and addictions not a disease, period.
It’s a maladaptive expression of learning through coping, not able to stand up for themselves due to life experiences and circumstances.
Communication and nurturing loving care and education is more affective than instilling fear or tough love for which is another form of abuse.
The brain and body self regulates if you give yourself half a chance. Using chemicals and prescription drugs are not a cure. Actually they make a child more susceptible to rely on drugs to alter their mood.
The body tries to balance itself and most all prescription drugs such as antipsychotic drugs are addictive.
It’s a controlled substance that is used for maintance/profit/business and fueling the economy. That results in the constant periodic adjustments and increase of more prescription drugs to counter the side affects as well to regain control over a person.
Marijuana is habit forming cognitively and environmentally but not quite truly addictive to the masses. Nicotine is addictive.
If you cure the masses than the pharmaceutical industry loses profits.
To end addiction educate and communicate how all forms of abuse affects children. Stop the abuse. Parents and children need healing.
It’s not an illness or a disease it’s a lack of knowledge and lack of education. Calling it an illness and disease or mental disorder is stigmatizing.
Mostly it is the family dynamics and abuse in one form or another. Or brain damage and/or chemical affects and reactions on an individual basis.
It’s all experimentations not science.
Family talk therapy, communication, empathy and food/drug/abuse education; and anger control, as well as rebellion control needs to be top priority for proper healing.
ETA🌹
Ibogaine helps a lot with brains receptors
wow this is epic 26:00 does that means that if you are sad and you get drunk over it, it actually cements the reason you were sad about into your memory? That would certainly answer some of my issues lol
for garsh sakes that's how it starts for so many,,, you always here "I just wanted to sleep". Sleep disorders are at the root of 1/2 of all addiction problems which are misdiagnosed as such. I have found that work with the pineal gland { a melatonin producer } can help so much. This can be done thru* meditation and isochronic conditioning. The high you get from this is considered to be a better one [ and obviously, better for you] . The conditioning takes about 6-12- wks depending on the individual. These Isochronic tones can be use to repair and reverse many brain illnesses.
You can't go to sleep when you have anxiety high stress insomnia or on meth,,,,🤹
What a great talk with smart and amazing people. It's too bad the stage production people controlling the sound and lighting sucked at doing their jobs. Maybe they were on drugs.
Great work! Too bad our pharmaceutical industry cannot contritbute fir the greater good, like how much more money can be made anymore?
do they talk about junk food addiction?
Why won't Elizabeth Vargas let the panelists finish their comments before interrupting! This is such a fascinating subject, but she is a terrible moderator. She cuts them off constantly and just when they're getting to a good point in the discussion she interjects and changes the subject or makes completely derisive comments. It is so distracting and frustrating to watch and listen too.
I agree 100 percent, but I think why she is doing that is because she really wants to understand what they are saying. She has a vested interest in understanding because she's a recovered alcoholic.
belladance30 was this before she came out about being a raging alcoholic?
No, that is why she is so passionate!
I disagree, she rocked it!
Keeps the discussion moving along without long tangents from higher intellect people who may not know how to moderate their large verbal knowledge blurbs.
For those who don't know, the moderator Elizabeth Vargas is a recovering alcoholic.
Good to know.👍
Link?
Perhaps it’s not good to put someone else’s recovery out there.
@@titoriverarevealed She has been openly talking about it herself. She even mentions it in this video, so...
Words like "addict" is antiquated and no longer used in medical science.
My body my brain is messed up a lot of the time ....I am on edge so bad with anxiety and craving SOMETHING! Something is just wrong! It feels like the edge of opiates withdrawal but it does not go away even taking a teensy dose of prescription opioid...my body/my brain is unsatisfied! It is really annoying....I just want to feel satiated and not lacking! It is not like a 100% of the time but it often enough so that my quality of life is seriously down a few notches from what it would take to honestly answer "yes I feel good" ...I feel somewhat close to "good" ...but the lack....the hunger for something else that might satisfy ruins the ability to be honestly satisfied if that makes sense at all.....I have done a lot of drugs in my day and maybe it is as simple as knowing I could feel so much better than I do....I get so bothered I feel like I am going to jump out of my skin! I work hard to keep my opiate intake down to nearly nothing ...of as close as I can tolerate...maybe if I was ALL THE WAY completely clear of everything this feeling of lack would subside ....I just don't think I could stand what I would have to go through to get there!
Am I allowed to try psychoactive drugs to help me? NO! Because it is a political football! These politicians only want to be in POWER and not actually DO anything
only 14 minutes in but i can't help but to say when people turn to an external source to deal with anxiety and stresses or really not deal with problems verses turning straight towards the problem and dealing with it. people spend more time and energy running from a problem and cause themselves more pain than they would find if they just faced the problem and take away the power they gave the problem over them. those that don't know how to cope with life are pron to attach themselves with mechanisms that perpetual avoidance of what i have come to call the human condition. most that turn to food or drugs are trying to fill a void. lack of love in their heart. how does anyone cope with having been cut off from a source the soul once had. tho most thing that the brain runs the show i tell you it is not it starts with the heart in more ways than you can imagine.
Gary, you know nothing about addiction, nothing... how dare you assert that addiction is a form of lovelessness... It is a BRAIN malfunction friend... I was a mother of three and a yoga teacher full of love, but my brain needed help so I did a medicine called "Ibogaine" it cured me because it reset my brain... Everyone's trying to fill something, but drug addiction is a brain problem and can only be healed there.....
first do not attack me saying i said something i didn't say. 2nd how the hell would you know wtf i know. 3rd fuck off . simple minded fool . and i do know you are simple minded cause you let something have control over you. how stupid . was given freewill and gives it away to allow things to have power over you. just STFU why do i continue to share truth or pearls with swine . gee so sick of having to be on this plant with you fucked in the head people
oh i read what was wrote about love. and i do not feel like explaining it to you since you are an ass . fuck i hate the cloth i am cut from. i hate giving a fuck about you people . look dumbass it is like this and as simple as this. once some of us was connected to GOD but the connection was broken . the avoid they are trying to fill in their hearts is the love some of us felt from our father. simple and true. that or they want to live in the flesh and loe this place which the bible says if they love this place they are not of me or from me. something like that. or part of the 85% that want to die. maybe mommy didn't hold them enough. lol all these things i can speak about because i do have experience. more than you would wish upon your worst enemy. so yet again STFU
oh i have no doubt that the brain tunes it's self to activities and works those areas of the brain to refine and enhance the talent. seen this in people with talents like playing the piano . so once some one losses control of their thought , body and actions they can get stuck in the loop of feeding that talent or addiction , but if you look into what DAN WINTER is saying the heart drives the whole system. the part of the body behind the heart catches the pulse or vibration and sends it to the hypothalamus in the brain for it to control the hormones and body. i have sen what a person with addiction does . they live for the high from one to the next. they allowed something to have control over themselves. they gave away their power and birthright. still say most that have a whole to feed in their heart is missing the connection with GOD that we had when we were not in this physical world ruled bye the prince of the air . look at the the opposition and how they operate. most everything is top case separation from self and consciousness or even each other to cause a state of turmoil and confusion. the know thy self was a hint to know that some of the thoughts in some people's brains may not be from themselves or their super id or higher self.
Ps is this before she told about her alcoholism the news reporter. ABC Elizabeth Vargas..????
She talk about her addiction and it came out no I read about it 3 years ago but what year did it come out??? I can hear her asking questions that it's like she's asking for herself but yet I don't have her admitting about her problem that being said is this before the ABC news reporter lady I forgot her name said that she was an alcoholic! And was hiding it!?
Just curious th
Thank you
1:10:15 Glass shattering moment.
If I can quote/steal from Brandon Novak: the moment I allow my sobriety to be the second most important thing in my life I’m lost. I’ve got three years of freedom from Heroin and Meth🎉❤! Stay strong out there!
what about epigenetics? and crispr?
I wish these fantastic humans had more of everything they needed to figure this out. However there are very very evil people & corporations that don't want you to exist. This is why it hasn't progressed.
"and bake a cake" LOL
No mention of ADHD which is too often overlooked as one of the main reasons for addictive behaviours. ADHD is a complex disorder with it main symptoms being impulsivity which in simple terms is the person being drawn to finding ways of increasing their dopamine levels. I know because I am one of these people, I was born an addict as everything I touch I am likely to become addicted. I became addicted to cocaine after being exposed to pharmaceutical amphetamines to try and fix my adhd. Now I understand adhd better I wonder why the doctors had not accurately identified the high risks involved in exposing me to such addictive drugs knowing my behaviours from childhood.
They mentioned adhd back and forth
All this is hugely interesting...but i feel like if my brain is phisically like this, I have very less choice to win my addiction.
Frustration is one of the worst things. I feel totally powerless, and basically i feel as a huge looser
If you look at the root of addiction, maybe you will get to know yourself better. Gob bless you. Wish you all the best.
How to find the root cause of the addiction?
@@aliqureshi2494 They literally describe in the talk EXACTLY what the root causes of addiction are. To summarize, It's 50% genetic, starts in adolescence, and is often precluded by developmental or emotional disorders that inhibit dopamine production like anxiety, depression, and ADHD.
You're weak willed,,, drugs lower your will,,,
That slippery slope
Hallo, I am an heroin addicted. I understand everything you say, cause when I was in the high-school I was really good in biology. I was the best of my class, though the lot of different types of drugs which i started to take in those years.
I've started the first time as I was 16 with heroin as well, now I am 31, and just 3 years ago I understand that I had a problem. My getting hooked was incredibly slow, because I've always been made also a lot of stuff, I am a creative. I actually recognize that I had a lot apart the drug, but I feel that it has been blocked me for all my life to do something -real-, do get satisfaction. Now I don't have job, I am planning to move from this city (Berlin) and try to abandoned my dream to work as a graphic designer (even if I am fucking good in it) cause it cause stress to me, and I am to used to the same moves every day. Here I need 10 min. to buy my drug. Listening of your speech, I am really afraid to be that kind of person who has the worst possibilieties to get out of it.
Will my brain change? How? What about this vaxine?
Same here, its really tough. Good luck
Irene, I really feel for you because your story is very similar to my own. Research on the phenomenon known as NEUROPLASTICITY is what ultimately saved my life. Now the drugs that I take are meant to control the root cause of having ADHD and having been on stimulants all through childhood (which killed my dopamine receptors) and then beginning to experiment with drugs at 14 yrs old. After many years of treatment and several different prescriptions that only worked halfway, I am using food, supplements, and very specific (low addiction probability) drugs in small, controlled amounts to alleviate the ADHD symptoms and take control of my life.
Neuroplasticity is about the use of habits and brain chemistry to physically change your brain.
go watch mensutra channel he will definately change you ..as he changed me too
I'm sorry for what you're going through. Too many people from my hometown are now on heroin. Ever since my children were born I've thought that my mission is to keep them away from drugs.
They are now 16, 10 and 5. I saw the movie "4 good days" and will be showing it to my older children in the next month.
When I saw it I cried for all the loss I've seen happen. I cried for the mothers of the kids I knew growing up that lost their son or daughter.
When watching this movie with my kids I will likely cry again and that will be the first time in their lives they have seen that.
Stay strong in your journey and please know that there are a lot of people out there that my not understand exactly what you're feeling, but we stand with you and want to see you stand tall. We also appreciate how difficult some things are so we don't fault you in times you may think we will.
You're breathing, there is hope.
this video is fucking genius- THANK YOU! anyone who is fortunate enough to watch this gets the real deal about addiction, which is rarely told these days! GOD HELP US!
what's the difference in a street addict and a patient that is prescribed roxys Xanax and fentanyl patches every month. one admits it. one does not.
I don't get exactly how a person that wants to get high would use the vaccine unless they were also getting help to fell better.
Anecdotal Evidence: 9:00am - Wake up wanting to use and hating it. 10:00am - Use, and feel great about it. 11:00 - Feel like I'm dying. Hate my addiction. Want to use again.
@@noahhollingsworth3303 hey. One thing I've learned about myself and my cycling addictions is that you need to develop self compassion in regards to the guilt of relapse. Self compassion and learning my mental and physical limits (as far as stress) were 2 very important factors in gaining the amount of discipline I have today, although I need to continue growing. Remember this, relapse will be a natural part of recovery if mindfulness and introspection are maintained (identifying your own emotional states and your specific triggers)
The disease processes we get tolerant & want more high so so using Ng a needle tells us it will give us a higher impact of High !!! It’s a powerful disease doesn’t care where u come from what goals u have In life & doesn’t care about yah children it wants us dead bt wants to torture you b4 it takes yah life.many wonder why do we do it the reason for that is as we don’t have any power to combat the disease. We can’t do it alone we need. Support I won’t give up & will keep trying !!! Wish u all the best & send out love ❤️
You can give two people the same dose of an identical drug, for example a prescription opioid, and one person could love the feeling of the drug while the other person could absolutely hate it. If the same drug can affect two people so differently,. how much clearer can it be that addiction is genetic predisposition. Nobody chooses to love the drug.
Just because the non-specific affect of a drug is different in two individuals does not prove that the difference is caused by genetics. If you study Van der Kolk or Maté's work, you'll see that trauma and early childhood attachment deeply impact neural pathway development which is a more consistent indicator than the genetic factor, which is elusive and has yet to be fully identified. It's not a choice, but it is also not principally genetic.
This is known as the “one to many” problem and is one reason psychology is not a pure science but merely a statistical science. Another problem is the “many to one” problem.
They love the feeling the drug makes them feel thus falling in love with the drug thus getting addicted,,,
This is a very informative video. However, I disagree that it's not a choice. I am an ex-addict of 7 years. I got clean with no help. I just had to stop obsessing over myself and think about the people around me namely, my children. I was being selfish!
I think that when we label things they become a cop out..... I can help it I'm sick. When I was an addict I was at the bottom of the jar. I never stole and have no criminal record. I find even when it's not necessary these people do amoral things. I also had to think about the company I was keeping.
Why wasn’t Dr. Gabor Maté part of this discussion?
Because they don't like what he's saying. ' Not why the addiction but why the pain ? '
@@stevenrobertson6656 pain is everywhere.... They jst don't have the courage to deal with pain and all addiction is either a way to reduce pain as escapism or they think it will help with pain
Im sorry but it does come down to will power....i was on vicodin and oxy for 7 years ...couldnt keep a job..a woman and my kids suffered because of it....one day i looked at my daughter who was hungry i bought a cheeseburger to split between me and her and spent the other 35 bucks on pills.....i cried that night and said she didnt deserve this.....and i would not let my kids see me like this......i have been clean 5 years .......it definitely can be done if a person really want to quit......if u touch fire and say ouch that hurt never again..guess what u not gone touch it again...same thing here withdrawal are hard and painfull but if u really want to quit u will fight through the pain...
Who cares,,,?
People confuse personal anecdotal evidence with science , your experience is just that. These guys are addiction/neuro -scientists and have immense knowledge in this subject. Please use their expertise to learn, there are so many factors with addiction, and one simplistic view from one person, is sorry to say completely irrelevant to the field of addiction.
In medieval Europe the water was not safe to drink due to contamination, coffee and tea weren't invented yet and alcoholic beverages were consumed by all. In medieval England a significant amount of daily calories came from ale and it is estimated these ales contained 3% to 10% alcohol. Ale was consumed by all, including adolescents and even younger children. So I have some difficulty swallowing everything the new research suggests.~~~We could argue that in those times there were no other drugs such as nicotine, cocaine, marijuana, etc. to add to problems. Perhaps also, life in those times, was more grueling and people worked hard to survive and were not bouncing from artificial pleasure to artificial pleasure. Food was largely for sustenance. Sex happened after a hard day's work. Now we have a great deal of time to seek pleasure apart from whatever we do to support life.
they left out SUGAR
Sugar is the most abused substance on the planet
Lol, they don't want to go there. But yeah.
Brain maps change the persona in mins
I'm addicted to red bull. I drink 2 sometimes 3 500ml cans per day. While smoking cigarettes.
Heart attack
Fix social problems first and treat as an illness second! Sometimes addiction can be attributed to neurological chemistry requiring a neurological fix and if you really could then you will also cure all neurological diseases by default. 🙀
(52 minutes) There are receptors for individual drugs though?!? If you screw with the opiate receptors you will seriously damage the ability to feel/not feel pain. That’s a pretty important part of life. Even “vaccines” for addicts only doesn’t preclude future need for opiates. Unless somehow you simultaneously cure chronic pain and pain caused by anything that could ever happen to someone to cause a critical injury or cancer or anything at all.
If you mess with nicotinic receptors for cocaine and nicotine, problems could be schizophrenia, spectrum disorders, bipolar disorder, Parkinson, Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s and more.
I don't get how it could be a disease when it is such a product of circumstances. You may be more vulnerable or predisposed through genetics, but if you're never exposed to the drug then you will never get addicted.
AND you could the addiction gene use the drug and just decide to not be addicted,, simple as that ,,, just a choice,
Environment also! Bc some ppl nvr dven know about this stuff and dnt know wht dope or crack is and the diff.nvr been itnroduced to it nvr know it even exists..
Forget about drugs and alcohol that's easy to quit,, what's hard is junk food sweets coffee and tv,,,
gateway drugs 35:20
INCREDIBLY misleading title... :/ Addiction and drug use
It always depend on genetics with most things
Of course no one would want to fund a vaccine for heroine so sad how it's all about money. They care more about that than saving lives..I work in recovery and spread awareness everyday to help with addiction prevention. I'll always continue to help my clients fight this on going battle 🤍
So that 4% chance hit me and didnt smoke till maybe 25
Read the description... Explicit content does the same thing with abuse it causes neurological knot 🪢 ( also displayed as anthropomorphic and statues in ancient petroglyphs etc.. of representations of knots ( addictions ) .
Anyone NOT in favor of ending "the war on drugs"? DO NOT VOTE FOR THEM! PERIOD! EVEN if "lesser of two evils" We have to just say NO to leaving things how they are.....drum em ALL out! DAMN! Drugs that can help people should NOT still be illegal! It is just INSANE!
I had to watch this for my uni course and tbh the host seems off. Like when she's rushing the man to talk and then passive aggressively says "thanks for introducing him when I already did". Just an opinion though.
The person doing the audio mix seems to fall asleep too often.
maybe they're on drugs,,,
you cannot deny it, this guy's addiction story would be much different without that family support.
Substance abuse can be prevented if you have parents that give a shit about you I had all those disorders mentioned and no one gave a shit and I became a raging drug addicted person
regarding dr volkow's comment on cannabinoids enducing a schizophrenic mind are incorrect. studies done after this airing are not conclusive as to which order, if at all, cannabinoids effect a schizophrenic except as relief. 'Regarding the debate about whether cannabis use causes psychiatric symptoms or patients use the drug to alleviate symptoms. Given the increased rates of cannabis use among people with schizophrenia, along with the role of the endocannabinoid system in the pathophysiology of the disease, some experts have begun investigating whether some cannabinoids could help manage some of the symptoms of schizophrenia.'
Then how come I get anxiety hear voices and paranoid with weed,,,?
23 million and a half 🧐
Try almost 200 million
How does addiction affect sleep?
Of course, chronic stress can affect sleep
It makes you incredibly tired from lack of sleep (from binge drug use) and makes you knock out at the worst possible moments,,(like driving)
Is the "vaccine" he's talking about Naltrexone?
Lee Holley What's that?
fluoride in the water and lack of exercise in childhood are the two main contributors i think that lead to imbalance neurotransmitter levels.
+treverbettis
I can't understand why we can't just have plain water, and have the option to add fluoride ourselves, if we want fluoride?
Why must it be fluoridated for us ? And therefore we are forced to drink it ?
I have always drunk fluoridated tap water, and the idea that I have never had unfluoridated plain water for any period bothers me immensely.
I'd like to learn about water collection and storage over time.
SixSixSix because your teeth would rot and you would die from mouth disease...
+ junk food TV video games low attention span peer pressure educational system cartoons,,,
@@b00gi3 why would you want to add fluoride to your water,,,? It disrupts brain ability and makes people docile weak subservient and easy to control,,, Hitler gave fluoride to the slaves in the camps us government copied his idea and gave it to everyone In The country in the water toothpaste every store bought drink and chemtrails,,,