The Hijacked Brain Part 1: Understanding the Disease of Addiction
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- Garry Reifers, Founding Program Director of Oxford Treatment Center, translates current research on addiction from a practical treatment perspective in a series of three free evening workshops starting with The Hijacked Brain Part 1: Understanding the Disease of Addiction.
Focused today on training and education, Garry developed the clinical content of The Oxford Centre’s residential program and provided supervision for all counselors and therapists. For more information on our complete continium of care at Oxford Treatment Center, visit www.theoxfordcentre.org
Going thru drug withdrawals for couple weeks from opioids and this helps Me logically understand better what my brain is going thru , great lesson and thank you 🙏 🧠
I thought it took like three- four days to get out of your system
Same here Christian. Haven’t slept in 6 days. Gabapentin is the only reason I haven’t relapsed. Good luck to you :)
@@isabellajones8595 insomnia can last several weeks. All depends on length/quantity of use though.
Hope you get well soon🤙🏼🙏🏼
Watched this a couple years ago newly sober and it helped me so much. Watching it again almost 4 years sober and it's just as powerful. Thank you for your hard work❤❤
this is the best explanation of science and addiction I have ever learnt... Thanks so much
Your lecture is so useful. Thank you for put it on CZcams.
The Big Book does not have anything about addiction being a disease, because all this is fairly new. This is why some insurance companies are starting to cover treatment for drug addiction and such. Because, addiction is now listed as a disease (in the brain). I think he does an amazing job. It was very educational for family members who do not understand about the disease, as well as people who suffer with it. Just speaking for myself, friends and family. Hope y’all have a wonderful day!
The Doctor's Opinion is when it says it's a disease
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My friends who have been addicts at some point found their bodies/brains ruling choice. Current research speaks of repeated experiences with substances for instance, eventually "highjacking the reward center" of the brain. Personally, I never forget what a friend told me about the first time she inhaled a regular tobacco cigarette. She had a feeling that was so extraordinary that she knew at that point in time she never wanted to be without that feeling, that that feeling was the most important thing in her world. Not smoking was never an option after that first experience. That sort of reaction HAS to be physically driven and the inability to stop equally physical.
Can you stop pooping? Or eating? People can’t stop coffee, stop talking about things you don’t understand at all
As a scientist and treatment professional, I can say that Garry is on point. We do not have to like or find agreement from personal experience with the information Garry provides, but we cannot argue with the science. The information is not up for debate; check the brain scans of those diagnosed with a substance use disorder.
Thank you Garry for your research and the science you provide in layman terms!
The very nature of science is that you argue with it. Science is not infallible dogma . If you did not argue with science there would never be any science. Nothing new would be discovered. If course you argue with science.
@@michaelglass9604 Not with clearly established science
@@anandvyas671 "clearly established" is a legal term. Nothing in science is clearly established. The nature of scientific discovery is to challenge the norm and move the ball somewhere and anywhere. The use of that term in reference to science clearly establishes (LOL) my point... you have a bunch of technocrats in the bureaucracy making up shit and calling it science and then using fear and shame to promote it.
@@michaelglass9604 wrong - Certain things are clearly established. Alcohol and how it works on the brain is - so are MANY things it’s how we made car and airplane. You can think what you want yet you’re talking to a PhD in Neuroscience- many things are absolutely clearly established like the vaccine working. You’re anti vax I can tell huh?
@@michaelglass9604 you’re nuts -
Thank God for the people who care!
Thank you so much. Very helpful presentation.
Brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Play the tape, remember all of the destruction, misery, and chaos it brought in your life.
Here's the thing if you carry something unpleasant you've done with you, And you have truly learned from whatever it was. You Keep it in the back of your head so it doesn't happen again, because you're someone you can live a 100% completely straight life, kind of like when a dog stops shiting on the floor. you won't do those things again if you truly understand them. if you're someone who lets It Fade then you're more than likely to make those mistakes a second time
Very true
Thank u
Withdrawals from Benzos right now and wishing someone would kill me ( not really) but yes ITS HORRIBLE ☠️ I’ve had cancer twice with chemo radiation surgery etc and detoxing from Klonopin is worse
Wishing you a great recovery and great inspiration.
Hope you are doing much better now!
How are you now? Benzos can take a long time. They arent linear in healing either, hope you have improved a great deal
So this is what I'm paying for, can't I just subscribe
The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous never says alcoholism is a disease. In the preface to the text, titled “The Doctor’s Opinion,” Dr Silkworth refers to alcoholism as the manifestation of an allergy. The writers of that book were at pains to NOT use the term “disease” so as to avoid controversy with medical professionals. In fact, the only definition the Big Book provides of alcoholism is as “ILLNESS which only a spiritual experience will conquer.” Clarification on this point is important for those who have stayed away from AA because they don’t accept the disease model of addiction. Beyond the AA issue, I should add that scientists are still divided on whether addiction is a disease or not. Some argue that it is an extreme example of aberrant learning and habit formation. In either case, the “hijacking” metaphor is a bad description of addiction because it frames drugs as terrorists; and terrorists make people do things they don’t want to do. Addicts aren’t acting against their will when they use; the problem for addicts is that they have wants they don’t want to want.
Ben Thompson I think so too, exactly.
I couldn’t have said it better myself 🤙
Yeah I don’t want Wednesday but it’s going to happen. So I prepare myself to just (drug) my way through it or turn my self off With reality. I can ghost my way through Wednesday without the drug but I know next Wednesday will be here too. This is not the answer.
The Big Book is crap and written by an Alcoholic and another non doctor
Addicts want to feel good which is our Divine right. Many of us were abused, we never felt loved or wanted. Somewhere along the line we never felt right. We are just trying to relax, to enjoy life when we're broke , haven't had a girlfriend in years, etc. There's no reason to feel guilty or to be hard on yourself. I believe you can get high and enjoy it if you have the will and discipline to control yourself and keep your wits. I do not believe in any kind of judgemental fundamentalist thinking.
Interesting
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Is it advisable to watch this with an addict or get them into treatment 1st. Any good videos on kids that seem to be taking this unfortunate road. Thanks. Separate issues
plant C sounds like the guy I fell in love with that I CAN'T get over no matter what I do, even though he's not someone capable of a relationship as it turns out... I still miss plant C... all the time...
Shout-out to all my fboys out there 😂🎉
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Omg he rambles
Sounds crazy but I quit every form of sugar and starch. I had a month of on and off withdrawls. And other addiction deprivation reactions. For it being a healthy dietary change, my brain and body threw some fits.
no fruits, no vegetables? only meat?
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Unpleasant memories do not fade faster than pleasant memories. Unpleasant memories made by your own actions will only fade if you're someone who cannot take responsibility for your actions. If you do take responsibility for your actions then those unpleasant memories will never fade,
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I will say this. The FIRST step in recovering from addiction is learning to forgive YOURSELF and understanding that only GOD can take away the shame and guilt that is associated with an addict. An addict can hide and deceive and fool everyone, including himself, but God sees ALL things. No matter how hard you try to deal with the emotions of shame & guilt it is only when one comes to the realisation that God TRULY has FORGIVEN you that you begin to get well and allowing Him to be in control will keep you clean. Self forgiveness THROUGH Jesus is key to a clean and peaceful life.
So basically, we atheists are just screwed then
@@davidminor4213 Basically, yes.
@@1justpara Of course, I disagree, but I do actually admire your honesty.
Lol so dumb
My interpretation is that it’s a Higher Power of your choosing/understanding - an entity larger than yourself that speaks or resonates to/with you. That higher power could be science (neuroscience, neuroanatomy) etc. I don’t see atheists as “screwed”. 😊🙏🏼😉
",,and after that catastrophe happened,,,"
I laughed out loud on that one.
"... we can see a difference in the brain", yes, however: Normal? They never define "Normal". What is "Normal" in a highly artificial civilization? More accurate would be "someone who can function in the current society in which (s)he finds himself/herself".
How much of the difference is one of degree? In other words, non-addicts also act on impulse. The lecturer even gives an example. What's more, it's fun to act on impulse, to let go, to let loose. Addicts get to act on impulse a lot more! Hence, it is fun to be an addict . . . at least for a while, at least more fun to be an addict than to be around an addict.
man the thing with addiction being a disease just seems off to me, don't get me wrong I can agree to a point but the problem I have is it gives people an excuse instead of admitting there's a problem they can just excuse themselves they have a disease.
don't get me wrong addiction sucks I know personally but its not on the same level heart disease etc etc.
It is self-inflicted disease; however, it is a disease anyway. The main question how to treat it (and them) because this disease is very risky and detrimental for the society as a whole. It is absolutely not acceptable that people- drug addicts - are walking around in thousands without any reaction on the part of society.
I don’t want to kill myself
Withdrawals from Klonopin will
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Get to the point. Why talk about what your going to talk about and just say it
U would expect a better presentation from Oxford ppl.. So overatted ivy league
It's NOT a disease and it doesn't say so in AA big book. He's mistaken.
This is really bad. Don't quit your day job.
Its not a disease..you contract a disease, its an addiction!
Life is complicated and your channel is empty.
Karen Ashworth your ignorance is breathtaking.
It’s a disease whether you like it or not ma’am. It’s defined as a disease by every doctor because once addiction has occurred, the brain is defined as diseased.
@@creaky2436 its your crutch...
Your head is empty causing you to not be able to think for yourself..instead you go with whatever you're told thats suites you.
I'm in less than a minute and a half, and can't go any further because so far its nonsense. He doesnt have to be a scientist, but if he is going to talk about science or addiction or anything at all he owes it to his audience and to the ones who did the research or wrote the books not to misreport their findings statements or conclusions. The Big Book of AA never called addiction a disease, and science has not determined that it is a disease. The entire premise of this discussion is false, and not being a scientist is the least of the problem.
Spend a day reading science journal articles about alcoholism - changes in gaba and glutamate receptors, a half dozen neurotransmitters, the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex - it is a disease.
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Be openminded, there are millions of opinions on the crux of "Addiction". He speaks of drugs and alcohol (drug) and the Big Book is only one approach to the solution, not the end all be all... BB p.164 - "Our book is meant to be suggestive only. We realize we know only a little."
@@d.glasby5117 there is substantial research to support it is s disease but silkworth never called it that like this guys says he did.
@@d.glasby5117 which articles or journal would u recommend, but the scans show the brain is less activated for addicts... The science festival video on same topic suggest there's a very high chance its gene related plus environmental factors that causes people have a higher chances to get addicted, since they don't have before after scan, it's hard to determine if their brain structure was different to begin with.. But i feel there's a very high chance it is different for those who remain addict.. Because not all who tried drugs remain addicts....