David Poses: Get to the Root of Addiction

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

David Poses (speaker, expert, activist, author of The Weight of Air) discusses the intersection of addiction and mental health. He opens up about becoming addicted to heroin in an attempt to treat his depression after learning about it in a school drug education program, and how he was able to function on and effectively hide his addiction to the drug. Mayim and David debate the benefits and disadvantages of 12-step programs and consider how society’s need for instant gratification may contribute to the ongoing opioid epidemic. They discuss the need to change our perceptions about those with substance abuse issues and restructure the way we view mental illness in general. Mayim explains the effects of marijuana on depression in another installment of Ask Mayim Anything.

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0:00.0	In fifth grade, maybe you had this assembly too, with the cop from the deer program.
0:07.8	Oh yeah, just saying no.
0:09.8	Okay, so the cop at my school came in and he said, heroin is the worst drug because it's
0:16.0	a pain killer so strong that you don't have feelings.
0:18.3	And he said that like it was undesirable.
0:20.5	And for me, it was like, this is exactly what I need.
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