The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease - Marc Lewis
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Biology
Brain
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Mental Health
Neuroscience
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Psychology
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Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the “disease model” of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to recovery. The psychiatric establishment and rehab industry in the Western world have branded addiction a brain disease based on evidence that brains change with drug use. But in The Biology of Desire, cognitive neuroscientist and former addict Marc Lewis makes a convincing case that addiction is not a disease and shows why the disease model has become an obstacle to healing. Lewis reveals addiction as an unintended consequence of the brain doing what it’s supposed to do - seek pleasure and relief - in a world that’s not cooperating. Brains are designed to restructure themselves with normal learning and development, but this process is accelerated in addiction when highly attractive rewards are pursued repeatedly. Lewis shows why treatment based on the disease model so often fails and how treatment can be retooled to achieve lasting recovery, given the realities of brain plasticity. Combining intimate human stories with clearly rendered scientific explanation, The Biology of Desire is enlightening and optimistic listening for anyone who has wrestled with addiction either personally or professionally.
Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
Release date: 07-21-15
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This post has 5 comments with rating of 5/5
August 16th, 2023
I agree - not a disease. Good to see a book that may offer an honest solution in contrast to the medical establishment.
August 16th, 2023
Thank you.
August 17th, 2023
**U.S. drug overdose deaths hit a record in 2022 as some states see a big surge**
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“Drug deaths nationwide hit a new record in 2022. 109,680 people died as the fentanyl crisis continued to deepen,..”
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/18/1176830906/overdose-death-2022-record
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Its a disease alright. A national Cancer.
August 17th, 2023
NOT a disease. If your body made [insert whatever the asshole is addicted to, for example alcohol] and you were therefore continually drunk and/or dependent on the alcohol, fine. It’s a disease.
If you have to leave the house to go purchases what you are fixed on, you’re an asshole with no willpower, not diseased.
Stupidity and laziness are closer to being a “disease” than this…
August 20th, 2023
@apnea It is a disease of our society and species, but it isn’t really a disease of the individual that is considered addicted.
Lack of education, lack of accesible mental healthcare, family consumption of (and really easy accesibility to) destructive drugs (alcohol, smokes, meth, weed, etc…) obviously leads to a lot of people becoming addicted to what makes life bearable to them.
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