Jan 23, 2019
“A lot of what I’d like to do is to try to help people, if they are in a dead end, to get out and decide for themselves how it is to be human”
Started out in Engineering and found a drive to go to Med school, Dr. Michael Levin discovered his passion in Addiction psychiatry. He is now an accomplished psychiatrist for 20 years in Denver, Colorado.
During this episode, Dr. Michael Levin talks about how addiction has followed him throughout his career as a physician, from his first patient who was an alcoholic to the AIDS patients who were mostly heroin addicts.
He also talks about profound topics like how it is to be human, the connection of addiction to love, Helen Fisher and her research, and how to understand an addict brain.
Get the show notes, transcription and resources mentioned at http://thefamilyrecoverysolution.com/
Highlights:
01:07 The General idea about Dr. Michael Levin
04:14 What is an Addiction Psychiatry?
09:24 Love is complicated
21:21 Breaking down love and addiction
29:44 That addict brain- what you have to understand