[Download Now] Dr. Gabor Maté on Addiction: From Heroin to Workaholism – A Biopsychosocial Perspective – Gabor Maté

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For twelve years, Dr. Maté was the staff physician at a clinic for drug-addicted people in the Downtown Eastside, where he worked with patients challenged by hard-core drug addiction, mental illness and HIV. The 90-minute recording draws on cutting-edge science to illuminate where and how addictions originate and what they have in common.

His most recent book was a best seller. In the realm of ghosts. He shows that their addictions do not represent a set of medical disorders, but reflect the extreme end of a continuum of addiction that runs throughout our society.

The source of addictions is not found in genes, but in the early childhood environment where the brain’s reward pathways develop and the emotional patterns that lead to addiction are wired into the unconscious. Drugs, alcohol, nicotine, or to behavioral addictions such as shopping or sex are created by stress, both then and later in life.

Helping the addicted individual requires us to appreciate the function of the addiction in his or her life. The addiction is more than a disease, it is a response to a life situation. We can develop a compassionate approach to addiction if we recognize the roots of the problem and the lack it seeks to fill, one that stands the best chance of restoring him or her to health.

• Describe the chemical and physiological action in the brains of substance dependency.
• Summarize how early childhood experiences shape the brain.
• Explain Dr. Maté’s view on the social bias of addiction.

There is a source of addictions.

• What happens chemically and physiologically in the brains of people with substance dependency or behavior addiction
• The false “blessings” of addiction as experienced by the addict (e.g., as emotional anesthetic, as personality booster, as social lubricant, and so on)

The development of the mind.

• How early childhood experiences shape the brain
• The social basis of addiction in economic, cultural and political dislocation and disempowerment
• How much choice does the addict really have, and how much responsibility

There is a relationship in which healing occurs.

• How to encourage the addict to take responsibility

In adolescence and earlier, the prevention of addiction.

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