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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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Polyvagal Theory and How It Relates to Social Cues

We innately long for feelings of safety, trust, and comfort in our connections with others and quickly pick up cues that tell us when we may not be safe.

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Jodi Clarke
2019
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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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Andrew Anthony
2019
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‘Taking in All the Pain of What They Witness’

Addiction, whether to drugs or other behaviors . . . is always a compensation for the sense of being devalued as a human being.

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Gabor Maté, Danny Glover
2015
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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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John Lavitt
2017
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Dr. Gabor Maté on the Trauma Underlying the Stigma of Addiction: An Interview

There are legitimate uses of opioids in the treatment of physical pain. There is no legitimate use in the treatment of emotional pain.

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John Lavitt
2017
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