the story i lived to tell...szalavitz, maia. unbroken brain: a revolutionary new way of...
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The Story I Lived to TellCortney Lovell
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“We have this idea that if we are just cruel enough and mean enough and tough enough to people with addiction, that they will suddenly wake up and stop, and that is not the case.”
- Maia Szalavitz
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Challenge the Process
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Comparing Concepts
Amygdala
Hippocampus
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Addiction Hardwiring / “Hijacker”
Fear / Anxiety
Memory
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Learning/Process Disorder
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“Drugs alone do not ‘hijack the brain.’ Instead, what matters is what people learn -- both before and after trying them.”
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"There are three critical elements to it; the behavior has a psychological purpose; the specific learning pathways involved make it become nearly automatic and compulsive; and it doesn’t stop when it is no longer adaptive.”
Szalavitz, Maia. Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction. Picador USA, 2017
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Only about 1 in 10 people with a substance use disorder receive any type of specialty treatment.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Surgeon General, Facing Addiction in America:The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health. Washington, DC: HHS, November 2016.
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“… despite harmful consequences.”
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just one outstretched hand
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can spark self-love
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“To convey a valued person from where he or she was, to where he or she wanted to go.”Evered & Selman, 1989, p. 16
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“Individuals who received recovery support services improved from their initial levels of substance use and also improved in comparison to those who did not receive such services.”
Bassuk, E. L., Hanson, J., Greene, R. N., Richard, M., &Laudet, A. (2016). Peer-Delivered Recovery Support Services for Addictions in the United States: A Systematic Review. J Subst Abuse Treat, 63, 1-9. doi:10.1016/j.jsat.2016.01.003
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