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Rewiring the Brain for Addiction
From: Fighting For Space
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Marc Lewis, the author of The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a Disease, visits Downtown Eastside and lays out an argument for addiction as a learned habit. Lewis argues that the choice to consume drugs is greatly modified by habit, by perspective and by association. But it always comes at a cost.
Contributors
Travis Lupick
Travis Lupick is an award-winning journalist based in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. He has more than a decade's experience working as a staff reporter for the Georgia Straight newspaper and has also written about drug addiction, harm reduction, and mental health for the Toronto Star, the Walrus, and Al Jazeera English, among other outlets. For his reporting on Canada's opioid crisis, Lupick received the Canadian Association of Journalists' Don McGillivray Award for best overall investigative report of 2016 and two 2017 Jack Webster awards for excellence in B.C. journalism. He has also worked as a journalist in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Malawi, Nepal, Bhutan, Peru, and Honduras.
