Aaron, your father saved my life! I was addicted to codeine for 20 years and was suicidal, until I watched Gabor's videos. For ONCE I found someone who made sense and perfectly described what I was feeling and had gone through in my childhood and further CPTSD. I will forever be grateful for the work you both do in spreading awareness and the bottom line to me in recovery was finding out "why the pain". I live in Johannesburg South Africa ... so your work is reaching far and wide! THANK YOU! Bron
Needs to be heard far more by a greater number of people. So much truth that is so far ignored by society at large. Root causes are always brushed aside in favour of quick fixes that never work.
You know Aaron, when I first saw your name I thought "Ha! He has the same name as my favourite human". Now I find out you're his son. Your father is up there with Noam Chomsky as the two most important humans on our planet in terms of understanding the sickening byproducts of capitalism and their effect on the human psyche. Great interview and discussion.
Aaron's father is, in my opinion, the world's foremost expert, specifically on addiction and its societal, institutional and family-based roots. A great man. A visionary in his field.
I had the honour of having both my babies delivered by Gabor when he was still a GP. At that time he was known mostly for the astute editorials about political matters that he wrote for the Vancouver Sun . Always curious, he attended his first meditation weekend during my first pregnancy, and has grown enormously since. I remember that at the time I met him, I could not comprehend how such an accomplished Renaissance man could suffer from ADHD. Like most of us, I enjoyed the common stigmatized misperception of Attention Deficit Disorder as simply being the inability to focus or pay attention. How could someone become a doctor if they had ADHD, I wondered. Imagine my surprise when, thirty years later, at the suggestion of a friend, I myself was diagnosed with a particularly virulent form of ADHD, along with PTSD, mil bi-polar disorder and OCD, all of which were triggered by a severe, life threatening childhood traumatic incident that occurred when I was nine years old. Fortunately, I had a loving, supportive home environment, and never was attracted to any form of addictive substance. I did smoke for a short period of time, five cigarettes a day. But no drinking. But as I grew older, the impact of the trauma, and the damage to the executive function of my pre-frontal lobe went unrecognized, undiagnosed and untreated, making me hair trigger reactive, especially when under the threat of a deadline, or during periods of prolonged stress. I developed an addiction to emotional intensity, terror, panic and rage, triggered and fuelled by a toxic chemical brew of stress hormones, adrenaline and cortisol. I could not handle the panic attacks, which were triggered by even the slightest hint of rejection or shaming, making me shake as if I were still nine years old. Instead, I learned to preempt any possible attack by lashing out at whoever I perceived might be threatening my existence, The angrier I got, the more adrenaline I got pumping, The more I ramped up the rage, the more clearly I could think, and the more articulate I became. By the time I was in full tilt fury I was probably a pretty formidable foe. I can only imagine the devastating impact that my outrages had on the people who tried to love me, but it I destroyed almost every relationship I managed to create. Sadly, despite a great deal of personal work, I did not recognize the cause of this devastating emotional roller coaster ride until much later in life. This thoughtful interview with Gabor has helped me put together another missing piece in the puzzle. I am very grateful for his work educating and enlightening an increasingly large audience.
Thank you for this upload. Dr. Mate's insights really help me to better understand why some people struggle with addiction. He seems like a very intelligent and enlightened man.
Gabor makes things so clear and easy to understand, thank you for sharing your wisdom. My daughter was in treatment twice now and we also where frustrated with the lack of one on one counseling/therapy as she has had both physical and emotional trauma before she became an addict. It has and continues to be a long road ...we need more resources desperately in B.C. as I am sure everywhere else.
wow Dr. Mate is Aaron's dad; amazing and informed, first I got to hear him in the Zeitgeist moving forward movie, now this on our Opioid crisis. No wonder Aaron is such a great journalist. thanks
As a side point, many trauma survivors don't utilize drugs as escapism--they "simply" disassociate and/or fragment i.e., to the extreme becoming DID. Which is very dangerous in itself... Thank you, Dr. Matè for your continued wisdom and compassion.
This will probably never be read. People with legitimate PAIN backed by a medical diagnosis cannot get adequate pain relief thanks to all of the restrictions on prescribing pain medication. We're told to take Ibuprofen and Naproxen which is killing our kidneys. But I guess that's okay. There is definitely an addiction problem but legitimate pain should be treated!!!
That distinction between legitimate prescribed use, or those who use medication for other reasons than pain. Most deal with the symptoms rather than the cause with no ongoing support for pain itself. It can be easy with chronic pain to feel that more is better, that in itself creates addiction. I have had pain 33 years it is a challenge, good luck Sir,
Rehab itself is a trauma itself due to the suffering of going off in an abstinence method . One thing nobody talks about except for ex heroin addicts , is that the benzodiazepines they are given to help them get off heroin , are more painful and harder to withdraw from than opiates and opioids . Benzodiazepines like ativan, xanax, klonopin(all trade names , you can look up the generic names) cause the most deaths in withdrawal or even in detox than any drug, cold turkey alcohol a close second . These deaths are mostly caused by seizures . Any decent detox for "benzos" includes a week or two of phenobarbital to prevent seizure and to induce sleep and rest . Then the patient is weened off the narcotic phenobarbital and titrated up to a non narcotic anti seizure drug .
Ned Raw . "Modern society" not very modern nor very social. Capitalism beside the real capital values Too much emphasis on the material aspect while losing on the true human factor; the necessary progress of humanity!
love gabor, fond memeories of him in -" zeitgeist moving forward." addiction is a disease. its often aquired from self medicationg from chronic pain and or stress. the just say no thinking is meaningless. its like saying suffer without any relief ever. just say no is especially meanigless when it come from people who dont have any economic stress. not that wealthy people cant have emotional trauma like anyone else, but being poor is chronic stress they cant imagine. i have had addictions in my past and while it doesnt help stress at all in the long run. it helps in the short run. of the addiction ive had smoking was the hardest to break. ive not been addicted to opiods but i can understand at least in part. we need more help. medicare for all would be a start with much more affordable counseling available. and just haveing medicare to use when sick or injured relieves a lot of stress in it self. especially if poor and you cant afford insurance.
Not right 100%, but still the Best Interview with a Doc who knows of what he speaks I've yet to see! BRAVO! (Needs to address the sadly all too real issue of chronic intractable pain. Please!) 😟
Constant anti-heroin propaganda when I was in high school scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. It really sank in. I've tried and enjoyed almost every drug but I never touched heroin. Why? That anti-heroin info and propaganda I got as a kid. Nicotine is awful as is alcohol. But I've never once considered going out and breaking into homes or liquor stores in order to feed those needs. Heroin forces you to do absolutely ANYTHING to get that drug. No thanks!
Pls tell me why Afghanistan keeps putting out more and more heroin year after year... Why is no one investigating and reporting on what is going on there? Why is the US military enabling the heroin to come to US consumers? Who is making the money off this deal with our military? These are important questions no one seems to be asking. Why?
Greed, Greed, greed at every level of government power. Truly the ROOT of ALL EVIL. And HIDDEN so well BY the VERY POWERFUL politicians who ACT like they CARE about the GOOD of the PEOPLE they 'supposedly' represent.
Fortunately, this corruption IS being exposed, slowly, much too slowly, but it IS now exposed more than ever. Hard to expose The TRUTH when the corruption is so well hidden, kept so secretively quiet BY the very ones doing the corruption.
Make the connection. In every region where the US has declared an international 'war on drugs,' the amount of drug traffic from that region, or country, has always doubled, tripled ... who knows?
Hes, your comment was read. I'm in the same boat as you. Stage IV metastatic cancer w/mets to brain & collapsed necrotic hip & i go severely & intermittently treated. Its SICK how people are suffering. Where is the damn palliative care ?
Elaine Muhummad, I hear you saying that "whites" need to feel pain too. Agreed. If you believe that your same-age peers of Caucasian ilk are not suffering, I can assure you that you're incorrect. I think that this is, on your part, racism. Wouldn't it be wiser to wish us all less suffering? Maybe you are not ready to do so yet, and I am able to understand where this comes from, but it's still sorrowing to read/hear.
all great comments, but what about a video on ways to withdraw? DLPA, L Dopa, Vit. C protocol, Kratom, CBD oil, etc., etc. We can all figure out why, it's how to fix it that is the problem.
OK, there is NO WAY in this country there will be heroin supplied, period. Get realistic about how to HELP. The book is full of philosophy, but not many answers.
Football 🏈 is a source of childhood trauma. Addiction is profitable from fast food to pharmaceuticals It's healthy for someone. Our drug policy was in part inspired by racial attitudes of that day. A crime was committed via public policy against a subset of Americans for hoarding of resources along color lines. The opioid crisis is the cultural outcome of capitalism's willful blindness to the commons. A Educated, healthy and informed population would be a threat to addiction based business.👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Aaron, your father saved my life! I was addicted to codeine for 20 years and was suicidal, until I watched Gabor's videos. For ONCE I found someone who made sense and perfectly described what I was feeling and had gone through in my childhood and further CPTSD. I will forever be grateful for the work you both do in spreading awareness and the bottom line to me in recovery was finding out "why the pain". I live in Johannesburg South Africa ... so your work is reaching far and wide! THANK YOU! Bron
Thank you for sharing your healing with us
What a wonderful interview between father and son. Gabor Maté is an astonishing human being. Love, love, love that man. ❤️❤️❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Needs to be heard far more by a greater number of people. So much truth that is so far ignored by society at large. Root causes are always brushed aside in favour of quick fixes that never work.
Amen. One must start at the beginning, at the root, to know how the person arrived at their current situation.
You know Aaron, when I first saw your name I thought "Ha! He has the same name as my favourite human". Now I find out you're his son. Your father is up there with Noam Chomsky as the two most important humans on our planet in terms of understanding the sickening byproducts of capitalism and their effect on the human psyche.
Great interview and discussion.
thedriftmc was thinking about the same.
I knew of this well respected man and am delighted to know he is Aarons father !
I agree.
I ❤️ all the Mate's! Your father is an amazing human being and I'm thinking you didn't fall too far from the tree.
Agreement
Wish he was my dad! Seriously though, Dr, Mate has all my respect. Thank you both for getting your message out and saving our youth.
Aaron's father is, in my opinion, the world's foremost expert, specifically on addiction and its societal, institutional and family-based roots. A great man. A visionary in his field.
I had the honour of having both my babies delivered by Gabor when he was still a GP. At that time he was known mostly for the astute editorials about political matters that he wrote for the Vancouver Sun . Always curious, he attended his first meditation weekend during my first pregnancy, and has grown enormously since. I remember that at the time I met him, I could not comprehend how such an accomplished Renaissance man could suffer from ADHD. Like most of us, I enjoyed the common stigmatized misperception of Attention Deficit Disorder as simply being the inability to focus or pay attention.
How could someone become a doctor if they had ADHD, I wondered. Imagine my surprise when, thirty years later, at the suggestion of a friend, I myself was diagnosed with a particularly virulent form of ADHD, along with PTSD, mil bi-polar disorder and OCD, all of which were triggered by a severe, life threatening childhood traumatic incident that occurred when I was nine years old. Fortunately, I had a loving, supportive home environment, and never was attracted to any form of addictive substance. I did smoke for a short period of time, five cigarettes a day. But no drinking. But as I grew older, the impact of the trauma, and the damage to the executive function of my pre-frontal lobe went unrecognized, undiagnosed and untreated, making me hair trigger reactive, especially when under the threat of a deadline, or during periods of prolonged stress. I developed an addiction to emotional intensity, terror, panic and rage, triggered and fuelled by a toxic chemical brew of stress hormones, adrenaline and cortisol.
I could not handle the panic attacks, which were triggered by even the slightest hint of rejection or shaming, making me shake as if I were still nine years old. Instead, I learned to preempt any possible attack by lashing out at whoever I perceived might be threatening my existence, The angrier I got, the more adrenaline I got pumping, The more I ramped up the rage, the more clearly I could think, and the more articulate I became. By the time I was in full tilt fury I was probably a pretty formidable foe.
I can only imagine the devastating impact that my outrages had on the people who tried to love me, but it I destroyed almost every relationship I managed to create. Sadly, despite a great deal of personal work, I did not recognize the cause of this devastating emotional roller coaster ride until much later in life.
This thoughtful interview with Gabor has helped me put together another missing piece in the puzzle. I am very grateful for his work educating and enlightening an increasingly large audience.
Thank you for sharing your story.
Gabor Matè is one of the best psychologists of all time.
Thank you for this upload. Dr. Mate's insights really help me to better understand why some people struggle with addiction. He seems like a very intelligent and enlightened man.
Gabor makes things so clear and easy to understand, thank you for sharing your wisdom. My daughter was in treatment twice now and we also where frustrated with the lack of one on one counseling/therapy as she has had both physical and emotional trauma before she became an addict. It has and continues to be a long road ...we need more resources desperately in B.C. as I am sure everywhere else.
wow Dr. Mate is Aaron's dad; amazing and informed, first I got to hear him in the Zeitgeist moving forward movie, now this on our Opioid crisis. No wonder Aaron is such a great journalist. thanks
Body Brokers is an interesting film that exposes what some “rehabs” are doing. Many don’t have access to a quality rehab center.
Excellent, excellent, excellent interview. Thank you.
So glad to hear some one bring up the deep rooted reasons American is suffering. Sadly we are blind to see we are hurting bad as a ppl
As a side point, many trauma survivors don't utilize drugs as escapism--they "simply" disassociate and/or fragment i.e., to the extreme becoming DID. Which is very dangerous in itself...
Thank you, Dr. Matè for your continued wisdom and compassion.
This will probably never be read. People with legitimate PAIN backed by a medical diagnosis cannot get adequate pain relief thanks to all of the restrictions on prescribing pain medication. We're told to take Ibuprofen and Naproxen which is killing our kidneys. But I guess that's okay. There is definitely an addiction problem but legitimate pain should be treated!!!
That distinction between legitimate prescribed use, or those who use medication for other reasons than pain.
Most deal with the symptoms rather than the cause with no ongoing support for pain itself.
It can be easy with chronic pain to feel that more is better, that in itself creates addiction.
I have had pain 33 years it is a challenge, good luck Sir,
Rehab itself is a trauma itself due to the suffering of going off in an abstinence method . One thing nobody talks about except for ex heroin addicts , is that the benzodiazepines they are given to help them get off heroin , are more painful and harder to withdraw from than opiates and opioids . Benzodiazepines like ativan, xanax, klonopin(all trade names , you can look up the generic names) cause the most deaths in withdrawal or even in detox than any drug, cold turkey alcohol a close second . These deaths are mostly caused by seizures . Any decent detox for "benzos" includes a week or two of phenobarbital to prevent seizure and to induce sleep and rest . Then the patient is weened off the narcotic phenobarbital and titrated up to a non narcotic anti seizure drug .
Life sucks for many people, especially under the oppression of capitalism which is the cause of most of the stress and trauma in our modern society.
To deal with it some folks get high.
Ned Raw
Or they shoot up their family, neighbors, or co workers.
+Payhole Everdouche Which is exactly why they should be allowed to get high.
Ned Raw . "Modern society" not very modern nor very social. Capitalism beside the real capital values Too much emphasis on the material aspect while losing on the true human factor; the necessary progress of humanity!
Look at doctors
Thank for the upload, great interview and badly needed for all.
I love, love, love this Mate family! Gabor is my hero. I love him so much, so much respect!
love gabor, fond memeories of him in -" zeitgeist moving forward." addiction is a disease. its often aquired from self medicationg from chronic pain and or stress. the just say no thinking is meaningless. its like saying suffer without any relief ever. just say no is especially meanigless when it come from people who dont have any economic stress. not that wealthy people cant have emotional trauma like anyone else, but being poor is chronic stress they cant imagine.
i have had addictions in my past and while it doesnt help stress at all in the long run. it helps in the short run. of the addiction ive had smoking was the hardest to break. ive not been addicted to opiods but i can understand at least in part.
we need more help. medicare for all would be a start with much more affordable counseling available. and just haveing medicare to use when sick or injured relieves a lot of stress in it self. especially if poor and you cant afford insurance.
Not right 100%, but still the Best Interview with a Doc who knows of what he speaks I've yet to see!
BRAVO!
(Needs to address the sadly all too real issue of chronic intractable pain. Please!) 😟
Rob D I would like to see that addressed, as well.
Constant anti-heroin propaganda when I was in high school scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. It really sank in. I've tried and enjoyed almost every drug but I never touched heroin. Why? That anti-heroin info and propaganda I got as a kid. Nicotine is awful as is alcohol. But I've never once considered going out and breaking into homes or liquor stores in order to feed those needs. Heroin forces you to do absolutely ANYTHING to get that drug. No thanks!
great report
true...( and Aaron's accent explained at the same time )
I agree its a very good analysis
They keep using the same old tricks and the public never catches on.
Pls tell me why Afghanistan keeps putting out more and more heroin year after year...
Why is no one investigating and reporting on what is going on there?
Why is the US military enabling the heroin to come to US consumers?
Who is making the money off this deal with our military?
These are important questions no one seems to be asking. Why?
Greed, Greed, greed at every level of government power. Truly the ROOT of ALL EVIL. And HIDDEN so well BY the VERY POWERFUL politicians who ACT like they CARE about the GOOD of the PEOPLE they 'supposedly' represent.
Fortunately, this corruption IS being exposed, slowly, much too slowly, but it IS now exposed more than ever. Hard to expose The TRUTH when the corruption is so well hidden, kept so secretively quiet BY the very ones doing the corruption.
Make the connection. In every region where the US has declared an international 'war on drugs,' the amount of drug traffic from that region, or country, has always doubled, tripled ... who knows?
Seekers of Truth one word will tell you why MONEY !! Big Pharma started this and Big Pharma needs to GO !!
This whole world is unfortunately is being ran by cartels, of all sorts and kinds. And the worlds governments are involved with all of them.
Fantastic interview. Portugal.
Legalize ALL recreational drugs.
Stop supporting organized crime, drug gangs & the corruption of police & public officials!
I had wondered if Gabor was Aaron's dad. Interesting interview. Gabor is wise, even beyond his years.
I am happy I got to know both of you.
And if you ban all drugs & alcohol then people with use gasoline or other solvents.
Excellent interview.
The best...Gabor....bravo...to u both..
Excellent report ! Thank you. Very Enlightening !
I think that clean room aspect for those in need has been initiated, based on that protective research.
Very informative. Thank you RealNews.
Brilliant interview, lots of solid info on addiction. Sound is a bit off at times.
Smile, Gabor
Hes, your comment was read. I'm in the same boat as you. Stage IV metastatic cancer w/mets to brain & collapsed necrotic hip & i go severely & intermittently treated. Its SICK how people are suffering. Where is the damn palliative care ?
Real talk. Thank you.
Thank you!!
You've got a cool dad.
I love both Matè’s ♥️
I don't care! They don't care about our problems. Let the drugs take them out.
Elaine Muhummad To care for your neighbor is to care for yourself. Love for mankind is the only way we can survive.
Elaine Muhummad You shouldn't let other people actions control . You should be you. If you are a good person that is Great. If you are evil. Pray!!!
Yeah I know. But the whites don't care about is in all our crisis moments. Its their karma I believe. They have to feel pain as well.
Elaine Muhummad, I hear you saying that "whites" need to feel pain too. Agreed. If you believe that your same-age peers of Caucasian ilk are not suffering, I can assure you that you're incorrect. I think that this is, on your part, racism. Wouldn't it be wiser to wish us all less suffering? Maybe you are not ready to do so yet, and I am able to understand where this comes from, but it's still sorrowing to read/hear.
People stigmatize druggies because of the enormous amount of misery they cause their community as well as their family and friends.
Daddy looks high as a kite.
Eye In The Sky ???
all great comments, but what about a video on ways to withdraw? DLPA, L Dopa, Vit. C protocol, Kratom, CBD oil, etc., etc. We can all figure out why, it's how to fix it that is the problem.
you should ask me...clean for 11 years
12 years on Opiate meds, crack and heroin Addict...
America FIRST🇺🇸
Patient as object, instead of patient as subject. Therefore, treating as "lab-rat", and not as a person with a life-history.
Joss Dionne Truth
Free Flyer Right!
Joss Dionne Much love, Truth, Healing and Wholeness to you, me and all those who are seeking this in one form or another. 💖✌
Solution? Legalize control and regulate drugs !!
Military option for the Opioid crisis.
Your DAD??? YOOO curveball my g lol
Awww😯
"When did we start measuring deaths in 9/11's?"
- Louis CK
No no no , no opiods for pain . We must all suffer equally. Everyone is the same . Typical American answer for all our problems.
nobody nobody this is what it has become, sadly
omg how come nobody is commenting how handsome is Aaron?? ok I already knew I love his father and now ...there's more of them ;D
great mythbusting interview! although the low volume at times was very annoying,so please fix that TRN.
Survivor
OK, there is NO WAY in this country there will be heroin supplied, period. Get realistic about how to HELP. The book is full of philosophy, but not many answers.
Omg Trump talks like a 3 year old ... We're doomed
From Trump, all I got was that it's the people's problem by making it their responsibility to chose. mmmmm. Why is there a choices anyway?
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Gabor Hartley talks, it’s mostly the interviewer. Just sayin.
Football 🏈 is a source of childhood trauma.
Addiction is profitable from fast food to pharmaceuticals
It's healthy for someone.
Our drug policy was in part inspired by racial attitudes of that day. A crime was committed via public policy against a subset of Americans for hoarding of resources along color lines. The opioid crisis is the cultural outcome of capitalism's willful blindness to the commons. A Educated, healthy and informed population would be a threat to addiction based business.👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Fake 📰
Donald Trump will go down in history as one of the greatest Presidents EVER.