370: The Neuroscience of Addiction with Judith Grisel, PHD

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Lucas Rockwood

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🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

You don’t manage to leave the office until 8 pm. Traffic is terrible, so it takes you an hour to get home. One of your relatives is sick and has been texting you all day, but you haven’t had a moment to call to check in. Your taxes are due in a few weeks, and you don’t have any idea how much you’ll owe. You’re best friend is just not there for you the way she used to be. She hasn’t called you in weeks.

It’s Thursday evening, and you’re all alone in your kitchen trying to manage this very common mundane overwhelm that comes with everyday life. So what do you do?

No one is looking, no one will ask… Is it a Haagen Dazs and Netflix binge? Sleeping pills and a glass of red wine? Do you vape or watch porn? We all have our escapes. When the pressure cooker of our lives builds, it has to find a release. But most of our choices are destructive. On this week’s show, we’ll talk about how to find a better way.

Listen & Learn:

Why sobriety is often a sliding scale
How dose and frequency often determine damage and risk
How cocaine was not deemed addictive until 1986
Why the opposite of addiction is choice
The challenges of positive escapes in a stressful world

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ABOUT OUR GUEST

Grisel is a behavioral neuroscientist with expertise in pharmacology and genetics whose research focuses on determining root causes of drug addiction. She’s the author of a new book, Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction.

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1:05.6	Welcome to the Lucas Rockwood show.
1:09.9	I am a yoga teacher, a trainer, a serial entrepreneur, a nutritional coach, I'm a father, but first and foremost, I'm a student. I love learning and I go out with this show and I find interesting people, smarter people than myself, and I interview them, to share their best
1:24.0	teachings with you their research on health and wellness, nutrition and movement,
1:27.4	psychology relationships in this case on this week's show, addiction. We're
1:31.9	talking about drug and alcohol addiction, as we have
1:34.7	done a number of times in the past 18 months, and the feedback that I've received has been
1:38.9	really, really positive. People asking for more help, more discussions, more frank discussions about addiction in all of its forms.
1:46.9	As humans we have this need to escape.
1:49.0	Perhaps now more than ever the pressures of life and work.
1:53.6	They tend to overwhelm us at different points
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