Matt and Chris discuss current news and trends in addiction and treatment, the nature of free will and how it becomes eroded in addiction, and various other interdisciplinary modalities of drug and alcohol recovery.
Here are the main topics discussed in this episode:
- Story from news article where a woman relapsed during the pandemic due to her recovery routine being stripped from her
- News article discussing over 35 states decreasing funding for addiction treatment due to the poor economy
- Chinese Academy of Sciences and Stanford University are working on new methods of addiction treatment using an optical fiber light to erase drug memories and cues in mice
- Neuro-Electric Therapy (NET) for addiction treatment
- Deep Brain Stimulation for addiction treatment
- Is addiction a disease? A choice? Or something else entirely?
- How addiction works in the brain
- Debates among professionals and others about the nature of addiction, labels, principles, etc.
- Addiction documentary called Pleasure Unwoven by Dr. Kevin McCauley
- The role of the midbrain in addiction
- The role of the prefrontal cortex in addiction
- The role of the hedonic dopamine/pleasure system in addiction
- Importance of routines in recovery
- Increases in alcohol sales, use, drug use, overdoses, and addiction during the pandemic
- How biochemical optimization can be the very best relapse prevention method
- How addiction is profoundly isolating
- Healthy relationships in recovery
- Internal locus of control vs external locus of control
- How Matt is having a blast making more and higher quality YouTube videos than ever before as a massive project to help as many people for free as possible
- Viewing yourself as the protagonist in your own movie
- Joseph Campbell’s teachings on the “Hero’s Journey”
- Carl Jung on the idea of a collective unconscious
- How to write your own “I Survived” List; an exercise created by the late Sean Stephenson that Matt learned while watching him speak live at a seminar
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