The Epidemic We Don’t Talk About

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reported that for the second year in a row the life expectancy in the US has declined - a change that is largely influenced by an increase in drug overdose among young people.  Everyone in every community has been affected by addiction in one form or another - an alcoholic parent, a teen in rehab, or maybe a spouse addicted to pornography.

Erik Kerr, the Co-Founder of Clear Health Technologies is here to talk about the massive impact addiction has on the lives of 282 million people worldwide.  He and Summer Felix-Mulder have brought together 29 amazing speakers on healing all facets of addiction and facilitating lifelong recovery.  It’s a free online 7-day event called the Healing Addiction Summit, and it starts February 3rd.

Here’s the outline of this interview with Erik Kerr:

[00:00:40] The Draw Shop.

[00:02:25] The Keto Summit.

[00:03:02] $35 billion spent on addiction treatment and support.

[00:04:15] Almost 100% failure rate.

[00:06:21] HeroX Challenge: Addiction Relapse Technology Challenge.

[00:07:49] 282M affected.

[00:09:26] Addiction definition.

[00:10:12] Opiates, alcohol, sex.

[00:10:33] Hydrocodone, Oxycontin.

[00:12:11] Rating doctors by pain management.

[00:12:55] Rachel.

[00:14:42] Dr. Mary Caire.

[00:16:35] Social media and phone use.

[00:17:30] One year no beer.

[00:17:48] Are you leading by example?

[00:20:24] Dopamine resistance and porn.

[00:20:46] Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA).

[00:22:04] Prefrontal cortex is not fully developed until 25 years of age.

[00:23:30] Time spent watching porn (actually closer to 9 minutes, rather than 7  as we said in the audio).

[00:25:58] Podcast: The Hungry Brain with Stephan Guyenet, PhD.

[00:26:13] Dr. Mark Hyman.

[00:26:50] Study: Gesch, C. Bernard, et al. "Influence of supplementary vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids on the antisocial behaviour of young adult prisoners." The British Journal of Psychiatry 181.1 (2002): 22-28.

[00:31:15] Parenting.

[00:32:49] Allison Hudson.

[00:34:36] 1 in 10 babies born in West Virginia is a crack baby.

[00:35:45] Robert Sapolsky. Video: Human Nature and Ted Talk: The Biology of Our Best and Worst Selves.

[00:38:51] Podcast: How to Create Behavior Change, with Simon Marshall, PhD.

[00:40:18] Dr. Nora Volkow.

[00:41:53] The Healing Addiction Summit.