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Drug Addiction: From Neuroscience to Ethics

By Michele Farisco, Kathinka Evers and Jean-Pierre Changeux — 2018

In the present paper, we suggest a potential new ethical analysis of addiction focusing on the relationship between aware and unaware processing in the brain.

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Stephen Porges: ‘Survivors are Blamed Because they Don’t Fight’

The psychiatry professor on the polyvagal theory he developed to understand our reactions to trauma.

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7 Ways Childhood Adversity Changes a Child’s Brain

If you’ve ever wondered why you’ve been struggling a little too hard for a little too long with chronic emotional and physical health conditions that just won’t abate, or feeling as if you’ve been swimming against some invisible current that never ceases, a new field of scientific research...

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Childhood Trauma Leads to Lifelong Chronic Illness—so Why Isn’t the Medical Community Helping Patients?

When physicians help patients come to the profound revelation that childhood adversity plays a role in the chronic illnesses they face now, they help them to heal physically and emotionally at last.

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Why This Doctor Believes Addictions Start in Childhood

Understanding the root causes of addiction can help us to better treat it.

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Dr. Gabor Maté on Donald Trump, Traumaphobia, and Compassion: An Interview

What if we replaced the word "addict" with: “A human being who suffered so much that he or she finds in drugs or some other behavior a temporary escape from that suffering"?

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Addiction Rooted in Childhood Trauma, Says Prominent Specialist

Dr. Gabor Maté, a well-known addiction specialist and author, spent 12 years working in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, a neighborhood with a large concentration of hardcore drug users.

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