Addiction and the Brain – Drug or Alcohol Abuse Is a Disease.
Addiction and the Brain – drug or alcohol abuse is a disease. – Tim Brunson, PhD, talks about how the brain works regarding addictions (alcohol, drug addiction). Why does your brain respond to repeated behavior? How can you use suggestion and imagination to create an alternate reward instead of alcohol, prescription or illegal drugs? Listen to this video on addictions and find answers!
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How does a thought emerge from a biochemical reaction in the brain?
That is, how does the PHYSICAL reality of neurology produce a PSYCHIC reality such as a craving or thought process that plans and pursues drug use?
I’m not asking for the usual weak correlates regarding “reward pathway neurotransmitters”.
I’m asking for a model of etiology that traces? a seamless flow of causality from the neurological PHYSICS to the PSYCHICS of drug seeking (or any other psychic reality for that matter).
Seriously, I’ve read of hypnosis having POWERFUL effects. For example,the British Medical Journal (BMJ 2 1952) mentions how a patient with icthyosiform erythrodermia was treated with hypnosis with some success. This disease ‘is as much an anatomical mal-development as club-foot’ yet hypnosis was effective. So I don’t see why it can’t be for addictions.?
Thank you for explaining it like this, not trying to give another? drug to replace the 1st one !(ie) Xanax, OxyContin ect.
Er, perhaps Baclofen is just as bad for some people, addictive and dopes them, but some people say it helped them withdrawl. Maybe is not a good? alternative after all.
You’re addicted. I’m addicted to codeine.If you want to get of Hydrocodone you might get withdrawl symptoms. Perhaps your doctor could put you on a less strong opiate (only if you want).He could prescribe anti-anxiety drugs,? but they’re just as addictive. I heard Baclofen is good for withdrawl symptoms. You could research it.There’s a vid on YT about it.
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If you use narcotics or drink alcohol regularly, you may assume that you’re perfectly normal and are just doing what everyone else does. In some ways you may be right; even though they’re illegal, many people use narcotics and many people drink on? a regular basis. But how do you know if you’re actually an addict and not just a normal user?
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When are they going to come up with a slam? “cure” and stop talking rubbish.
Hello Mr Tim Brunson!! You explained a wonderful theory. It should really spread and let people know more about Addictions reflection to brain. “Addiction is a chronic brain disease” This is the term I found practically approved from you. I must request you to help the people in understanding this and please serve us with your knowledge? to world’s #1 social networking support site DENTEDEGOdotCOM. I would like to thank you again!! Best regards
I love you, u make so much sense <3 im a painkiller addict. and methadone sorry to say but its honesty? i have one word (YUMMY) I definitely use narcotics to solve my problems which is social anxiety disorder and i love the rush too. Have u heard the song As the Rush Comes by Motorcycle i think omg me and painkillers lol. Sorry i sound pretty dumb do i? i just loved your comment and totally agreed with it, im also a extremely nice person
I love prescription painkillers they are so yummy. I take about 7 to 10 Norcos (hydrocodone) per day dam good feeling. How come i feel like i cant give up narcotics and i get scared when someone tells me i have too but deep? in my heart i want to get better but my brain dosent? When i try to stop taking them i experience hot feeling like humidity, irritation and depression. Is that withdrawals? will it pass? The main reason i take them is my social anxiety disorder.
Addiction is NOT a disease. If it was a disease all you would need is the antidote to cure it. People drop into using drugs to solve their problems or to get a thrill, then because drugs are addictive by nature they get hooked. Nothing will break the addiction long term until the drugs are? fully washed out of their system thus removing the cause. No medical model does this. Burying the problem under an hypnotic spell is probably crueler than using replacement drugs like Methadone. etc.
This video is very frustrating and absolutely full of it. Should be ashamed to post this.? Everyone wants a miracle cure for addiction, especially the addicts. Addiction isn’t only about “repeated behavior” or simply “finding an alternate reward instead of alcohol drugs” blah blah. If that’s the case every addict would see it everyday when they look at friends and family. You know nothing of true addiction.
I believe? I have already read it.
Interesting point. I don’t think there? are any clinicians that would disagree with you.
Thanks for your comment. However, you may wish to update your neuroanatomy knowledge. What you mentioned has not been taught for a few decades. Specifically, the information I presented builds upon the fact that all neural substrates contain stem cells, which when stimulated increase the number of neurons in that substrate. As the length of my reply is limited, Google me and use one of my comment forms to contact me for further information if necessary. I can provide? references and more info.
what is meant by 2:45 by “the repeated use of an addicted substance will cause the associated brain cells in those networks to multiply”. According to my neuroanatomy knowledge brain cells do not multiply. I think the explanation is simplified too much. – “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but? not simpler”