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Dr. Judson Brewer, Using Mindfulness to Beat Addiction

10% Happier with Dan Harris

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The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism

The first studies we did were to just see if there was an impact on people with addictions. i wanted to find a behavior signal before i spent time trying to understand, norabiologically, what was happening. So i learned how to become a clinical researcher even during my residency training at yale. They had that, fortunately, had a programme where i could do some research during residency training. We looked at mindfulness training compared to gold standard treatment for alcohol and cocane dependence. It went pretty welle. As far as relapse to drug use, it was as good as gold standard. When we stressed people out, because that's a big thing that causes people to relapse, we found

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