Kevin is amazing. I've seen him at a conference telling his story, right before Pleasure Unwoven came out (if you haven't seen it, it's fun and really lays it out in a truly accessible way. I'm an addictions therapist, and a recovering addict. Even after I knew the science, it didn't hit home until I was ready to hear it and accept that the message was for me. We're not bad people, we're good people who do sh*tty things because our brain is misfiring. We have to be accountable for those choices but we don't have to make them who we are. The part of our brain that is the "center of human empathy" actually shrinks when we are addicted/dependent. We are UNABLE to have the empathy we were born with. Doesn't make it ok, just makes it what it is - reality. Be well, I hope your journey has been filled with wellness.

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Dr R Cory Waller His videos are really good as well

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The point is that it does happen for some people, not that we should just wait for it. Help is out there it's up to us to be ready to receive it.

I hope the last few months have been good to you, and you've been good to yourself. We can't wish away the past, we can only do the best we can today - with brutal often painful honesty. Hope is good - faith in yourself and belief in something greater is where the work happens. Whatever that work looks ike. Be well friend

I've lived this nightmare. Dr McCauley IS spot on. What this lecture did for me was clear a path in my mind, which gave me some options I just didn't have before. There is too much guilt and shame and blame that far too many people with substance abuse diorder carry with them, shutting down a chance at real recovery. We are losing far too many people in the opiod crisis. Let me ask you a question. Do you think people who experimented with a substance said I can't wait to become an addict? Can't wait to lose my wife, house, kids, or life? It's not your responsibilty to deal with it directly, but you are already paying for it. If your a homeowner, the opiod crisis is getting so bad that in many places property taxes were raised in order to fund emergency services. We will all pay for The Heroin Effect. Somehow you totally missed what Dr. Kevin McCauley is teaching here. It's not about fault, it's about all the factors that go into decision making and how people like me have a skewed sense of how we perceive pleasure. This lecture taught me that I was born with a lower amount of dopamine receptors than what normal folks have. I now understand why I am predisposed to addiction while others do not. That's powerful. Your ideas are outdated. Unless you have experienced this disorder for yourself I guess you choose not to understand. NEVER in this video was responsibility shifted from the addict to society, in fact it's just the opposite. As addiction and the opiod crisis continues to expand exponentially, society will be forced to pay for it with higher taxes for public services. Every addict IS responsible for their own recovery, and in no way is that "our responsibility to deal with it". Kevin McCauley does not need a defender. That's not what this post is about. It's about keen and detailed insight into why the disease model that is taught in 12 step programs is scientifically correct. In my personal experience, it removes doubt about why those who strugge so much with this Apex predator known as addiction are the way we are. With this type of insight, blame and shame can now disintegrate in the addicts mind, and recovery can not only replace it, but destroy it. For me, it gives me hope that change IS possible. In early recoverry, if an addict can anchor this information into their mind, they stand a real chance at living the life they were put here to live, becoming positive members of society. Paying taxes, ownig business and working with others who struggle with this defect in perception, valuation, and decision making. It's about saving lives, not blame shifting IMHO.

Joe Koszalinski : dude, relax and read my comment carefully… that’s exactlly what I am saying… you assume too much here… I am very well understanding the vulnerabilities that are nobody’s fault, as I say… but the responsability to deal with these vulnerabilities… it’s A DISORDER not to deal with it!!!! Though the vulnerabilities are NOT someone’s fault. Do you get that?

@@cakozmo1 Do you know what the success rate of programs like AA is with their 12 steps? Around 10%. It's a revolving door syndrome which keeps the 'addict' just where 'normal' people want them..i.e stigmatised for life and labelled and told to sort their life out. Okay, so if a child was abused by a parent do they then have a disease of the brain? And then subsequently misuse a substance because of this trauma, do they have a disease? Just something to think about.

It’s such a long presentation. Does he mention any supplements alcoholics should take?

Alongside public acknoledgement and that free treatment needs to be not only available for the rich to go for a break to recover

He says in another video that addiction is a disease of choice.

Doesn't matter if you label it a disease or not - Lewis just says the brain is working how the brain works. No question functioning changes in a negative way.

Funny a lot with addictions have the executive function disorders of ADHD and or Autism... impulsiveness is one of the many struggles of those disorders. So in a round about way......