2018
A musician helps a young singer find fame as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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Most genetic studies completely ignore the science of epigenetics, which is how the environment actually turns certain genes on or off.
Dr Gabor Maté explains how he believes that most mental health disorders—including Anxiety and Panic Attacks—originate in childhood experience as coping mechanisms. He also explains how revisiting the real cause of the problem can help you overcome it.
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Addiction, whether to drugs or other behaviors . . . is always a compensation for the sense of being devalued as a human being.
Understanding the root causes of addiction can help us to better treat it.
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"?
There are legitimate uses of opioids in the treatment of physical pain. There is no legitimate use in the treatment of emotional pain.
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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A bad childhood: Vancouver physician Gabor Maté and the social roots of our addictions.
Physician Dr. Gabor Mate began his interview by addressing the 'myth of normal' that divides us into the normal and the abnormal with pathological traits. Dr. Mate mentions that he doesn't see a division, but a continuum where mental distress, of some degree, is present in all of us.