The seven myths of addiction /
For twelve years Dr. Gabor Maté was the staff physician at a clinic for drug-addicted people in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, where he worked with patients challenged by hard-core drug addiction, mental illness, and HIV, including at Vancouver Supervised Injection Site. In this video seminar,...
| Format: | Video |
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English with optional closed-captions and transcript in English. |
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[Eau Claire, WI] :
PESI, Inc,
[2020]
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | For twelve years Dr. Gabor Maté was the staff physician at a clinic for drug-addicted people in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, where he worked with patients challenged by hard-core drug addiction, mental illness, and HIV, including at Vancouver Supervised Injection Site. In this video seminar, Dr. Maté examines the source of addictions in the early childhood environment and the neurobiology of the brain's reward pathways, discusses the chemistry and physiology of substance dependency, and explains how addiction can function as a false blessing (i.e. emotional anesthetic or personality booster). He considers the social basis of addiction through economic, cultural, and political factors and probes how much choice the addict has and how much responsibility. |
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| Item Description: | Originally released by PESI, Inc, 2020. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on April 14, 2021. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 2 min., 54 sec)) : sound, color. |