Neuroscientist Marc Lewis on His Drug Addiction
Neuroscientist Marc Lewis On His Drug Addiction – Neuroscientist Marc Lewis is a former drug addict. He talks about his descent into addiction, how he finally got clean and why he’ll always be an addict. His…
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The aversion overcame the attraction. Just my opinion but that will
eventually happen to most people. Ty for posting…?
A Neuroscientist talks about his own experience with addiction and how he
has dealt with it. There is hope, devote yourself!?
Very interesting perspective from neuroscientist on his own addiction,
definitely worth watching.
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#drugaddict #recovered?
Firstly, that’s anecdotal and therefore completely irrelevant. If one
person flips a coin and gets heads 5 times in a row, does that mean it’ll
happen for everyone else? However, I have read that some people are more
disposed in getting an addiction than others, but I’d wager that
psychological strength, as well as environment, is absolutely the deciding
factor over your particular physiology 🙂
See my previous post.
Addiction seems to be linked to some genetic factor. I have used alcohol,
tobacco and pot and I currently use none of them and never used any for
very long except tobacco, which I think was more socially motivated. I
never felt a physical need for any of them and that includes tobacco; I
just quit smoking one day and never started again. I do still drink on
social occasions such as Christmas and New Year, but that’s it.
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And once again we tread the circuitous path of the free will argument.
Round and round it goes and where it stops nobody knows. Addicts need
treatment, the mechanisms of addiction are only imperfectly understood. No
one can stop being an addict, they can only control the problem with life
long support. And half baked self help ideology has never solved anyone’s
problems, except for those who make money off publishing such hogwash.
That the genetic bias for alcoholism is absent in the majority of Japanese
population. I live on the same planet you do I’m sad to say. You should
look more deeply into the concept of free will before showing off your
ignorance. Once you consider the findings of neuroscience the idea of us
having a “choice” about anything becomes tenuous at best. I recommend you
start with Sam Harris’s “Free Will”. There’s an introductory lecture by Mr
Harris on YouTube.
I refused to answer your questions because they’re irrelevant to the
argument. Certainly genetic predisposition isn’t the whole story but
without it the problem wouldn’t even exist. And the fact that you use
language like “responsible human being” & “right choices” shows you are
suffering from the vices of self righteousness and ignorance. If you’re
going to use your “free will to… ignore me” why bother to tell me about
it?
Of course environment is a huge factor, but that’s not your genes. You
can’t break your genes, as in an absolute retard with an IQ of 50 will
never be a rocket scientist, no matter what. You can, however, break you
environment – be an atheist in a christian society, a democrat in a
republican society, and a non-addict in a society where addiction is
normal. In short, yes, you can change your life. As I’ve said before,
thinking you’re powerless doesn’t correct the problem.
The genetic component is a massive contributor to your personality. I
suggest you educate yourself on the studies that have been done on
identical twins and the current findings of neuroscience which is rapidly
expanding our understanding of the role of the brain, a genetically based
organ, in the psychology of the individual.
I’m familiar with the whole concept of neuroscience and that it means we
have no free will. I think that’s an incredibly weak position to take or,
rather, to subscribe fully to. Shunning any responsibility and just blame
your genes. “I couldn’t help it doctor, it’s in my genes”. Sorry, but that
shit doesn’t jive. You help no one by saying they’re not in any control
themselves. You make it acceptable for them to linger in their addictive
state.
And again you can’t “break” an addiction, any more than you can change the
colour of your skin. You can seek treatment and work on controlling it but
you will never be rid of it.
What I’m saying is that everyone has the power to change their own lives.
An alcoholic has the ability to give up his addiction from one second to
another; by stopping. It’s incredibly simple and it has been done before.
Teaching people this does more good than just throwing your hands in the
air, saying “well, you can’t help it, so there’s no point trying to stop
now.” You don’t accidentally turn into an addict like you turn into a
cancer patient. That’s an incredibly silly comparison.
“And again you don’t encourage people to take matters in their own hands”
You’re absolutely 100% correct! You get the point, finally. The average
cancer patient has no idea of the best treatment for the disease, neither
does the average addict. When you take the treatment of such conditions
“into your own hands” you’re leaving yourself open to quackery and,
ultimately. futility.
An addict can’t just give up, it simply doesn’t work. E.g. AA has a success
rate of 8 to 12% after 12 months. Addiction requires life-long treatment.
You don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. You can’t “change your
life”, your life is determined by a whole series of cultural, economic and
genetic factors beyond your control. A person born of upper middle class
parents has a far different life than a one born into poverty.