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Addiction 17: Trauma (with Dr. Gabor Maté)

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What Happens When You Get Hooked on Opioids?

Maté: For some, the drugs make them feel something that they've never felt before. He says it's a little thing called love, without which there's no human life. Maté: What would happen to them is that childhood trauma prevented the healthy development of their own opiate circuits. In areas where they shut down auto plants, there was an 85% rise in opioid deaths.

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