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  1. Feb 2025
    1. > for - addiction - neuroscience - Marc Lewis - from - youtube - meaning crisis and drug crisis - John Vervaeke - https://hyp.is/DcNL3PW7Ee-Qq6P6Ct5-YQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-c2E5FB5Z4

    2. the disease model of addiction isn't just wrong it's also harmful

      > for - addiction - failure of rehabilitation is proof of the wrong model - the disease model - quote - the disease model of addiction is not only wrong, but harmful - Marc Lewis

    3. recovery now and talk about how this happens because for each of the people in my book they actually did find a way out of addiction as people generally do

      > for - addiction - quote - Recovery - most people find a way out of addiction - Marc Lewis

    4. the book I tell the story of Five addicts um one is a heroin addict one's a meth addict one was addicted to pharmaceutical uh opiates um the fourth one was a British man who was an alcoholic very serious alcoholic and the fifth one was an eating disordered person

      > for - book - The Biology of Desire - Why Addiction is not a Disease - 2015 Marc Lewis - https://dl.icdst.org/pdfs/files4/2a48405faa052ec2b4e0c56a79e001ca.pdf

    5. so that's the model

      > for - addiction model - Marc Lewis - addiction diagram

      > summary - Marc gives a good summary of everything - prefrontal cortex in control of judgment - striatum in charge of - attraction - desire - craving - midbrain - dopamine system - dopamine goes to the striatum and sets up localized feedback cycle so crave more - then the striatum becomes hyperactivated in the presence of cues - then you get that mechanism of now appeal - that narrowing of attraction to the immediate reward and - the loss of everything else - the other stuff falls off the radar - then the connection between - the prefrontal cortex and - the striatum starts to become compromised - resulting in ego fatigue - The prefrontal cortex simply becomes less effective at control

    6. I do some counseling with uh with with addicts over over uh Skype

      > for - Marc Lewis - remote addiction counseling

    7. you never hear people say Let's get high next week right just you're not going to hear that let's get high next Tuesday no so let's get high now tonight today

      > for - quote - addiction - delay discounting - you never hear people say Let's get high next week. You're not going to hear "let's get high next Tuesday. No, let's get high now, tonight, today." - Marc Lewis

  2. Sep 2024