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Show Notes:
Joseph Caravelle, MA, LADC – The Disease of Addication
- AA Program defines addiction as having three distinct components:
- The Allergy of the body.
- Understanding the parts of the brain that are affected by this disease.
- Limbic System – “Survival Brain”
- Neocortex – “Thinking Brain”
- NAc / Survival/reinforcement circuit – “Go” Circuit
- Left Orbitofrontal Cortex – “Stop” Circuit
- Understanding the parts of the brain that are affected by this disease.
- The obsession of the mind.
- How a memory formed
- How do certain chemicals present during the formation of a memory affect how these memories are imprinted
- The Malady of the spirit.
- How eventually we are left broken and what we need to move forward
- The Allergy of the body.
- Crossing the Invisible Line
- Understanding addiction is a disease
- Organ – Brain
- Defect – The breakdown in communication between the NAc and the left orbitofrontal cortex
- Symptoms – Chemical use despite consequences; the loss of control; tolerance and withdrawal; cravings