Dr. Keith Humphreys
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And breaking that belief, it's like, no, you're whipped.
You have lost your control out of the subject and admitting that
is the critical point.
How you end up explaining the spiritual part is really up to you.
But that part is not negotiable.
Why else would you be there?
If you thought, no, I can still control my drinking, they would say, well, then you shouldn't come here because we can't.
That's why we're here.
Yeah, yeah.
They were really great Americans.
I mean, they changed the country.
It's the closest.
John Kelly, my friend who did the review, said it is the closest thing we have to a free lunch in public health.
Yeah, they're amazing.
Yeah, and they may have other benefits too.
We haven't fully figured out.
So I'm extremely interested in their effects on substance use.
I have a friend who's an addiction psychiatrist.
She said, what my patients desire is they want not to want.
So which is different than like, I want to conquer my desire.