Big Pharma & Opioids (2021 Rerun)

Psychology In Seattle Podcast

Kirk Honda

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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[Rerun] Dr. Kirk and Humberto discuss the HBO documentary The Crime of Century, which details the corruption of the opioid crisis.

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July 26, 2021

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0:00.0	So Burda let me tell you a story about a client that I had many many years ago.
0:04.0	It was a very informative client to me about what heroin is and what Percocet is, what Vicodin is, all these kinds of pills.
0:14.3	I'd heard about it, but didn't really know much about it
0:17.4	in terms of people abusing the substances.
0:20.8	You know, I'd seen movies about heroin addiction and but I was like well you know I don't even really know what it does to people.
0:28.0	I had a client who came to me and he had a long history of problems with pills and with heroin and his
0:40.0	story was thus.
0:43.2	He had a violent father and was traumatized a lot growing up and you know lived a pretty typical
0:51.2	life in Seattle and had a typical job and
0:55.8	typical friends and typical kind of lifestyle.
0:59.2	But chronically, not feeling so good, but you know, getting getting by like in their 20s 30s yeah 20s 20s and early 20s and early 20s and he
1:10.0	uh... goes in to have a procedure done medically and they give him pain pills to you know deal with the pain post surgery.
1:19.3	He takes the pills and immediately upon returning home because they tell him like you're going to be in a lot of pain right so make sure you take a really good dose when you get home because it's going to be a lot of pain.
1:30.0	So he goes home and he's kind of miserable at the pain, but he takes, you know, picks the big dose,
1:36.5	and for the very first time in his life, he feels okay. Wow. He feels normal. He doesn't have those racing thoughts. He doesn't know those intrusive thoughts of shame.
1:46.5	What's wrong with you or everyone hates you? You know suddenly he's just cool as a cucumber and he suddenly realizes like when
1:56.3	your water in the air suddenly pops out right yeah like you can hear yeah oh
2:01.6	this is what hearing is like. I've been dealing with this clogged
2:05.9	year this whole time. This is what it's like to actually feel normal and he said that he
2:11.9	said for the first time I felt like I I felt the way
2:17.9	everyone else looked everyone else looked like they were fine everyone else acted like their life was going okay like they weren't constantly
2:25.2	struggling with self-esteem or shame or psychological pain from the passer, you know, PTSD like symptoms and distress and like spikes in anger and and you know deep insecurities.
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