Dr Wetsman recounts an interview he heard examining what great investors and great sports figures have in common. What can addiction treatment or healthcare professionals learn from this?
Dr Wetsman describes the universal law of striving to remind us to stay in this moment when trying to solve any problem.
Dr Wetsman recounts the description of the survivors of the Bataan Death March in Toland's The Rising Sun and applies the lessons of survival to our understanding of the disease of addiction today
Dr Wetsman considers what can cause sudden change in a natural system such as a human being and how our current system of healthcare fails in respect to responding.
Dr Wetsman discusses romanticism in popular thought about addiction and how it may be preventing us from finding a solution
Dr Wetsman describes how addiction treatment has moved over time from seeing addiction as primary to seeing it as secondary to other mental illnesses which has complicated and lessened the efficacy of addiction treatment.
Dr Wetsman discusses how most seemingly complex problems have very simple causes. The solutions might not be simple, but we'll never get there if we have inaccurate ideas about the cause.
Dr Wetsman takes a look at spurts of innovation and wonders why we aren't using everything we know to end addiction as a problem in American life today.
Dr Wetsman looks at the need for TOC in modern Medicine through the lens of a recent health challenge one of his friends had
Dr Wetsman discusses the difference between deciding to be abstinent and deciding to do what is necessary to bring about abstinence in addiction.
Dr Wetsman compares how we see addiction today with how we saw schizophrenia when he was in training and points out how TOC's efforts to see the cause instead of the effect would be helpful in both
Dr Wetsman discusses the commonly held belief that drugs cause addiction and looks at some of the assumptions behind this belief
Dr Wetsman discusses how our old ideas of addiction get in the way of solving it, and how things could go if we'd see it as a new disease.
