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Please add this heading beneath the video at the top of the page: Disconnected Brains: How isolation fuels opioid addiction (please make this text also link to: https://youtu.be/m7fGPGj2kaY) and below the link, in smaller font below: Dr. Rachel Wurzman, TEDxMidAtlantic, October 2017
Please remove the "Neuroscience of Connection and connectedness" heading
Please move this section: Addiction is an maladaptation to an unhealthy social environment. Even more than our primate cousins, homo sapiens have complex genetic and neurochemical factors that incentivize social connection. We have an evolutionary advantage for social behavior, social connection, and forming group bonds in order to survive and build civilizations and complex social structures. There’s a lot of complex neurochemistry happening to drive those behaviors, and opioid compounds specifically are implicated in the neurochemistry of human social bonding. It turns out that naturally-occurring opioid compounds are intricately involved in the reward systems our brains use to reinforce social connection. These naturally occurring opioids make social connection literally feel good: in a part of the brain called the striatum.
Blocking opioids attenuates physical warmth-induced feelings of social connection
... to below the owl with the test tube and above Rachel Wurzman's bio.
Please highlight the word "maladaptation" in the bold italicized heading font within that new heading.
Please increase the font size for the opioid compounds specifically are implicated in the neurochemistry of human social bonding. phrase that is called out in that section.
Please add the words: "Research Study:" before the "Blocking opioids attenuates physical warmth-induced feelings of social connection" link.
Above Rachel Wurzman's bio, please add a bio for Dr. Gabor Mate in the same style: Gabor Maté, MD Advisor to SeekHealing Program Development Bestselling Author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
A renowned speaker, and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté (please link his name here to http://drgabormater.com) is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics including addiction, stress and childhood development. Rather than offering quick-fix solutions to these complex issues, Dr. Maté weaves together scientific research, case histories, and his own insights and experience to present a broad perspective that enlightens and empowers people to promote their own healing and that of those around them.
For twelve years Dr. Maté worked in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside with patients challenged by hard-core drug addiction, mental illness and HIV, including at Vancouver’s Supervised Injection Site. With over 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience and extensive knowledge of the latest findings of leading-edge research, Dr. Maté is a sought-after speaker and teacher, regularly addressing health professionals, educators, and lay audiences throughout North America.
As an author, Dr. Maté has written several bestselling books including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction; When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress; and Scattered Minds: A New Look at the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder, and co-authored Hold on to Your Kids. His works have been published internationally in twenty languages.
Dr. Maté is the co-founder of Compassion for Addiction, a non-profit that focusses on addiction. He is also an advisor of Drugs over Dinner.
Dr. Maté has received the Hubert Evans Prize for Literary Non-Fiction; an Honorary Degree (Law) from the University of Northern British Columbia; an Outstanding Alumnus Award from Simon Fraser University; and the 2012 Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award from Mothers Against Teen Violence. He is an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Criminology, Simon Fraser University.
then, below the last line of text in Rachel's essay: "Drug Rehab is tragically incomplete unless it is followed by something that boosts connection. Seek Healing is going to fix this problem. And if we are successful, we will be building platforms for connections that can heal a lot of other social epidemics. But first, we need to save the lives of our friends, families, and neighbors who are dying fast from drug overdoses."
... please add buttons for "Rat Park Experiments", "A Spark Was Lit", and "Additional Resources"
... and please create new pages for each of those buttons that contain the content currently in each of those sections.
I believe these changes will make this page significantly more readable ... if you have any other suggestions or ideas please let me know!