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    Dr Paul's Addiction Summit

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    ​August 13-19, 2018

    Solutions for Health and Recovery

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    30 experts explore the new face of addiction and what we can do to recover and end the suffering. These informative presentations will provide a 360 degree view of the current issues we all face and provide invaluable insights about the path to recovery. This comprehensive summit is the first of its kind to address the worldwide epidemic. Please join us as the brightest minds provide the latest science, research, and approaches to recovery. 
    ​This summit is about finally finding solutions we can use today to the national epidemic of addiction. People are dying, children are becoming addicted, entire towns and cities are falling victim to opioid and prescription drug addictions. Clearly conventional medicine won’t fix this problem, so we have to. This summit is about bringing together 30 experts in functional medicine, addiction recovery, mindfulness, stress-reduction, alternative health, and more to investigate the solutions that are working, and to bring them to the people who need them most.

    The Addiction Summit will help you:​

    • Identify the root causes of your addiction, and treatment for depression, chronic pain, ADHD, and more. 
    • Discover cutting edge approaches to recovery 
    • Understand the new face of addiction 
    • Talk to your doctor  
    • Nutritional advice and tips for packing nutrients into every meal as your body heal and grows stronger 
    • Reduce rampant stress, end sleep-deprivation, counter vitamin deficiency, and alleviate the other factors that often recovery more challenging 
    • Determine which prescription drugs to take and when and how to ween yourself safely off of opiates 
    Online for FREE from August 13-19, 2018
    Sign-up for more information & to receive registration information. ​Don’t miss another incredible, educational Health Talks Online event…COMING SOON!

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    The Addiction Spectrum

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    How Addiction Affects Your Brain

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    Addiction affects your brain. But have you ever wondered how?

    How Addiction affects your brain. But have you ever wondered how? Addiction Spectrum - Dr Paull Approved. Photo courtesy of Jesse Orrico via Unsplash

    Photo courtesy of Jesse Orrico via Unsplash


    I find brain science fascinating and I’ll admit I’m a chemistry geek. Even if you’re not, you may be interested in what drugs, alcohol, and even behavioral addictions can do to you and how addiction can affect your brain.
     
    I run an outpatient addiction clinic based in Portland called Fair Start. At Fair Start we help addicts—mostly young adults—recover from drug addiction.
     
    The majority of our patients are addicted heroin and other opioids. Often they are using several drugs at once, including meth.

    Most people know me as a medical doctor. Most people don’t know that I’m also a recovering alcoholic.
     
    While I’ve been in active recovery for 15 years now and I’m not shy about sharing my story, I’m about to go public with all of this in a big way.
     
    I have a new book coming out called The Addiction Spectrum: A Compassionate, Holistic Approach to Recovery.  www.Addictionspectrum.com
    Addiction affects your brain. But have you ever wondered how? Addiction Spectrum - Dr Paull Approved
    The book will be published by HarperOne on September 4. 
    If you have a young family and you read my last book, co-written with Jennifer Margulis, The Vaccine-Friendly Plan, I think you will want to read this one too. Any parent who is afraid their child might someday get addicted needs the information we present in this book.
    ​If you’ve ever wondered about addiction, loved an addict, or suffered from addiction yourself, this book is also for you.
    If you’re a public health official, policy maker, doctor, or educator, you also need the knowledge in this book.
    So how does addiction affect the brain?
    No child is born thinking, “I want to grow up to be an addict or alcoholic.” 
    ​Even when our using or drinking starts having a significant negative impact on our lives, most of us will deny that a problem even exists.
    That is one baffling aspects of addiction.
     
    Addiction hijacks a person’s normal common sense. 
    To the outsider, it seems we have no willpower.
     
    But that’s not what’s actually going on.
     
    We now know where most of the substances we misuse act in the brain.