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“Without oxytocin, mice cannot tell friends or family from strangers—and mothers do not learn to nurture their young.”
― Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
― Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
“if punishment worked to fight addiction, the condition itself couldn’t exist.”
― Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
― Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
“Another crucial reform would be a federal mandate that kids in all residential programs must have unmonitored access to an abuse hotline that would trigger immediate investigation.”
― Help At Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids
― Help At Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids
“I figured scraps were better than nothing at all. I failed to realize that the same thing that distinguishes addiction from passionate interest also divides unhealthy love from that which is the highest experience of humanity. That is, love is real when it expands and enhances your life—and troubling and problematic when it contracts or impairs it. Whether you love a person, a drug, or an intellectual interest, if it is spurring creativity, connection, and kindness, it’s not an addiction—but if it’s making you isolated, dull, and mean,”
― Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
― Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
“We are sneaking psychedelics back into our society through research like the MDMA research that's going on, through the research for the use of marijuana for pain, through research with the dying [with psilocybin], and ultimately we will do the same kind of stuff about alcoholism, about prison rehabilitation, so on. I mean, its obvious that psychedelics, properly used, have a behavior-change psychotherapeutic value. But from my point of view, that is all underusing the vehicle. The potential of the vehicle is sacramentally to take you out of the cultural constructs which you are part of a conspiracy in maintaining. And giving you a chance to experience once again your innocence.”
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Randy’s 2025 Year in Books
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