Are you unknowingly damaging your brain and raising your cancer risk with just one drink? Discover the alarming truth about alcohol from Dr. Sarah Wakeman, what every adult needs to know now.

Dr. Sarah Wakeman is a senior medical director for substance use disorder at Massachusetts General Brigham Hospital, the number one research hospital in the world. She is also the Medical Director of the Mass General Hospital Addiction Consult Team and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. 

She explains: 
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How alcohol is hijacking your dopamine system.
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Why no amount of alcohol is good for your brain.
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The shocking truth about moderate drinking.
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How doctors are failing addiction patients on a daily basis.
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Why 1 in 3 people will struggle with alcohol.

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00:00 Intro 
02:23 Sarah's Mission 
02:52 Sarah's Education and Experience 
03:40 Issues With Addiction Treatment in the Modern World 
04:31 What Is Addiction? 
05:48 What Things Are Capable of Being Addictive? 
06:47 Physiological Dependence vs. Addiction 
07:25 Scale of the Problem: Why Should People Care? 
08:59 Is Society Getting Better or More Addicted? 
09:32 Substance-Related Deaths During the Pandemic 
10:22 What Drives People to Use Substances? 
12:24 Substances' Effects on the Brain 
14:29 Does Trauma at a Young Age Increase Addiction Risk? 
16:36 The Opposite of Addiction Is Connection 
18:11 Why Addiction Matters to Sarah 
19:02 Living With a Family Member Struggling With Addiction 
20:43 Who Is Sarah Trying to Save? 
22:57 Change Happens When the Pain of Staying the Same Is Greater Than the Pain of Change 
25:53 Misconceptions About Alcohol 
28:15 Is There a Healthy Level of Alcohol Consumption? 
28:50 Is One Drink a Day Safe for Health? 
30:38 Link Between Moderate Drinking and Cancer 
33:23 Types of Cancer Linked to Alcohol Consumption 
34:51 Cancer Risk Among Heavy Drinkers 
35:31 Heavy Drinking and Comorbidities as Cancer Risk Factors 
36:20 How Alcohol Drives Cancer Mechanisms 
38:00 Alcohol and Weight Gain 
38:54 The Role of the Liver 
42:07 Liver's Ability to Regenerate 
46:37 How Alcohol Causes Brain Deterioration 
47:23 Other Organs Affected by Alcohol 
48:00 Alcohol's Impact on the Heart 
49:08 Body Fat Percentage and Alcohol Tolerance 
50:05 Does High Alcohol Tolerance Prevent Organ Damage? 
50:46 What Is a Hangover? 
52:14 Balancing the Risks and Benefits of Alcohol 
53:47 Is Rehab Effective for Addiction? 
56:50 Psychedelic Therapy for Addiction 
57:36 GLP-1 Medications for Addiction Treatment 
59:03 Ads 
59:59 Celebrity Addictions 
1:02:24 Stigma Around Addiction 
1:04:41 Addiction Cases That Broke Sarah's Heart 
1:12:43 Is Empathy Positive Reinforcement for Addicted Individuals? 
1:15:34 Setting Boundaries With an Addicted Person 
1:18:57 Motivational Interviewing to Support Recovery 
1:22:19 Finding Motivation for Positive Change 
1:26:03 Habits to Support Addiction Recovery 
1:29:12 Ads 
1:30:18 Can the Brain Recover From Addiction? 
1:34:55 Unexpected Sources of Addictive Behavior 
1:35:35 How Sarah Copes With Difficult Addiction Cases 
1:37:10 Importance of Language Around Addiction 
1:41:40 How Labels Limit People's Potential 
1:46:05 Sarah's Upcoming Book 

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