Learning Materials
Read Chasing the Scream by Johan Hari, the basis of the above video, “Addiction” by Kurzgesagt.
Briefly: Punishment is a reaction that historically adds to deaths of despair including overdose and suicide. Replacing punishment with compassion and support helps people survive and heal through traumas that have been fueling addictions.
HarmReduction.org
What is Harm Reduction?
Read Loving What Is by Byron Katie, a modern Socrates.
Briefly: Questioning our thoughts offers clarity, allowing meaning to be derived from living.
Read No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., creator of Internal Family Systems therapy.
Briefly: When we punish our inner parts, we transform these parts from heroes into monsters. Dr. Schwartz guides us in holding, understanding and appreciating our inner monsters, so they can transform into the heroes they intended to be.
Read In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté, M.D.
Briefly: Surviving the holocaust as an infant in Hungary, Dr. Maté shares his and his patients’ humanity at a harm reduction facility in Canada.
Read The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Briefly: Modern labels for mental illness and addiction perpetuate ignorance of the causes. Physical, emotional, sexual, combat and other traumas make deep impressions on us, as deeply as how our genes are stored in every cell of our bodies. Seeing trauma as a major factor in physical and mental illness is an important step in preventing, understanding and healing ourselves and our cultures.
Resources for education and research about your health,
COVID 19 and other diseases:
Struggling to process helpful information from misinformation or disinformation? Check Dr. Wilson’s “Debunk the Funk”.
Take a course or tutor a student from pre-K through 12th grade advanced placement courses for free at Khan Academy.
Take courses from MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Georgetown, Tennessee and other universities for free at EdX.
Review peer reviewed published literature in the National Library of Medicine and with Google Scholar
Listen to or watch the latest episode of This Week in Virology, and read along with links to the latest journal articles. Or tune in to any of Microbe.TV’s “Science Shows by Scientists” to learn about your immune and nervous systems, evolution, microbiology, parasitism, agriculture, engineering, public health and more!
Take a free virology course.
Search COVID 19 randomized controlled trials by medication or therapy
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