Gabor Maté
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Talks, interviews and lectures by physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté — on trauma, addiction, stress and disease, ADHD, attachment, and healing.
c/gabor-mate
Talks, interviews and lectures by physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté — on trauma, addiction, stress and disease, ADHD, attachment, and healing.
…at what the medications do, every single one of them is a pain reliever. I mean, the opiates like heroin, Oxycontin, Dilaudid, codeine, morphine, these are all painkillers. Not just physical, but emotional painkillers. Cocaine is a local anesthetic. It numbs…
…May I just say one more thing about the brain? Please. Yeah. Opiates. So people get addicted to heroin or Oxycontin or Dilaudid, hydromorphone or codeine or whatever, fentanyl, unfortunately, which is a very dangerous one. These are opiates. They come…
…are drugs like heroin and morphine, which come from a poppy plant, an Asian poppy, or they're man-made analogs like Percocet and Oxycontin and so on. These are all opiates. But what are opiates? Why do we use them in medicine? What are they? Okay,…
…know your personality. Were you ever addicted to opiates at all? That was my thing. I had a three, 400 milligram a day Oxycontin habit. That's what crushed me. Okay, great. Let's look at the opiates, okay? Why does Oxycontin work in the human brain? Or…
…had a three, 400 milligram a day Oxycontin habit. That's what crushed me. Okay, great. Let's look at the opiates, okay? Why does Oxycontin work in the human brain? Or why do the opiates work in the human brain in general? The opiates work in the human…
…we have an opiate system in our bodies. We manufacture our own opiates. If we understand why you're addicted to fentanyl or to Oxycontin, an opiate, we have to understand what does the natural opiate do in the human brain. You know what they do? Three…
…May I just say one more thing about the brain? Please. Yeah. Opiates. Okay. So people get addicted to heroin or Oxycontin or Dilaudid, hydromorphone or codeine or whatever, you know, fentanyl, unfortunately, which is a very dangerous one. These are opiates.…
…are drugs like heroin and morphine, which come from a poppy plant, an Asian poppy, or they're man-made analogs like Percocet and Oxycontin and so on. These are all opiates. What are opiates? Why do we use them in medicine? What are they? Okay, painkillers…
…the opiates include the natural opiates like heroin and morphine and codeine. Or they include the artificial man-made opiates like methadone, Oxycontin, Percodan, and so on. Why do we use them? We've used opiates for thousands of years. In fact, they're one…