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Checkup From the Neck-Up, Episode 25 – Addiction: Lies, Truths, and Solutions

by Joel Stockton

January 2, 2025

TRIGGER WARNING – Please note that at [02:00] this episode of Check Up from the Neck Up includes descriptions of trauma, including assault, that may be triggering for some individuals.

Addiction scientist, clinician, and author of the new groundbreaking book “The Psychology of Mass Addiction,” Dr. Brian Johnson discusses how relationship trauma drives people to addiction as they try in vain to heal their damaged minds and hearts. He describes how organized medicine, the FDA, and the alcohol/tobacco/drug industries are in self-serving denial of the astounding cost of addiction to us all. He proposes revolutionary societal approaches to preventing alcohol, tobacco, and drug addiction and presents a new treatment approach that allows the addicted brain to recover and broken hearts to love again.