WYC 2009: This Mind In You

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GYC West

Eric Walsh: Rumbles in the Mind

Eric Walsh

The Addiction Culture

Mind Numbing, Soul Shocking: The Pathophysiology of Addiction

Mind Makeover: Faith and Addiction Recovery

Mind Ministries: How to Reach Addicted Souls

By his father god, we thank you lord for this opportunity to present again and to Delve deeper lord into the realm of the mind and addiction We just ask lord for your holy spirit so that father god we would be Wise and our approaches not only to our own health, but even as we approach others who may be facing addiction.

All right, so I'm going to start a few slides in, just giving some background numbers.

In 1962, 4% of the population over 12 had used illicit drugs.

By 1985, 33% had used and 23% were using regularly.

By 1990, 80% of teenagers and young adults have at least experimented and I'm sure these numbers are even higher now with the influx and popularity of marijuana.

An estimated 4.7 million Americans have tried methamphetamines.

2.3% of pregnant women are current drug users.

1 of the biggest problems we have in Orange County in the health department is we have a program for drug addicted moms and pregnant mothers and I'm amazed that even in pregnancy, the amount of methamphetamine, alcohol, nicotine, even cocaine is used and of course it causes major problems to the fetus and to the birthing process.

1 out of 4 US families suffer from drug or alcohol related problems.

So many of us have family members that are addicted or were addicted.

I think a fourth is a very low number, actually.

An estimated 13 million Americans are alcoholics.

1000000 addicted to cocaine, and more than 600, 000 are heroin addicts.

The average age of initiation of use of drugs, look at this, alcohol is 10 to 11 years old.

How do the 10 or 11 year olds get alcohol?

Usually you go to a wedding, you go to parties, and the kid is around and every time they're there, people are letting them drink a little bit of beer, they let them drink a little bit of this, a little bit of that.

And at a very early age, while the brain is still developing, they actually begin to take on a liking for the substance.

You know, I mean, my family, Jamaicans use white rum.

And a lot of even at Venice Jamaicans that's the way that that's if they're gonna get alcohol that's how they get it.

Because they take the cake and they're like sitting it out and it's rum and then you know 2 days later take it out cut it up frost it whatever they do you eat it and you I mean you actually can get a buzz just from the cake.

Alcohol can get to kids a lot of different ways, and stuff like that, cake is 1 of them.

Illicit use of prescription drugs started at 11.

What drugs And what do you think is happening where kids would actually be on drugs at 11 years of age?

We see that a lot actually in emergency rooms now.

But also they're being treated for stuff like ADHD with Ritalin, which is an amphetamine.

And so a lot, or in pain medicines even, in little, in young children.

And so a lot of them, that's where they're really getting into illicit drugs.

I mean, I used to see the sniffers and stuff.

And they take household products and sniff them, glue.

I don't know if you know this, but the dextromethorphan, the DM of Robitussin DM, the DM is also a drug of abuse.

The reason you can't get Sudafed in anything, because they'll take the Sudafed and make crystal methamphetamines out of pseudo-fed.

So there's a lot in just household products, paint, paint thinner.

How do you even figure out this stuff gets you high?

But a lot of the deaths that we call suicides are often overdoses and vice versa.

When we do a look at our child death review team.

Tobacco at about age 13 is an interesting how tobacco would actually come later.

I mean, you know, and so the kids don't want to smell of it.

But marijuana 13 to 14, cocaine 15 to 16.

When I was in high school in Miami, there was a thing where in the junior high, 7 girls had overdosed.

We were bused into a very, very, very wealthy public school system.

And these young girls, 2 of them overdosed on the cocaine in the parking lot of the junior high before school.

So kids get into some of this stuff very early.

33% of female heroin addicts say men influenced their decision to use drugs.

Only 2% of men said a woman influenced them.

Girls are now 15 times more likely than their mothers to use illicit drugs, so girls are an issue.

About 40% of crack cocaine addicts are women, crack being an incredibly addictive substance, and actually 1 of the few drugs that only 1 hit is all it takes.

And you can actually become completely fully addicted.

And that has been pretty well documented.

That's not everybody, but there are people that just 1 hit and they're addicted for life.

So money spent on addictive activities or different activities, gambling, look at that, in 1992 there was $33 billion.

This is 1 of the reasons why Arnold Schwarzenegger for a while there was trying to go after Indian gaming in California.

Because really there was a huge revenue source that isn't really being fully tapped into.

But there's a lot of money there locally in the state of California, but when you take it to like Las Vegas, It just goes through the roof.

The amount of money that is gambled in a city like Las Vegas is not even, you wouldn't even believe it.

But that's how they get the money to develop, you know, the strip in Vegas.

Some of the other addictions that are important to look at, sexual addictions, we talk about briefly is a major problem now, even with pastors.

We're having these problems now where more and more pastors are coming out from all denominations claiming to have pornography addictions.

Gambling is a big addiction problem still.

We see people do crazy things for a thrill, and then they wind up literally dying.

And carbohydrate and food addiction, which has a lot to do with serotonin.

And so If life is too exciting, the orange area says, you know, it's satiety is an issue.

Life is boring down in the bottom right corner here.

Where you fall, if you're not in a normal emotional state in here, and you live in 1 of these areas, you actually begin to try and find a way to deal with it.

And this is where drugs, there's drugs for people who want to come down, drugs for people who want more excitement, drugs for people who want fantasy, and drugs for people who want to escape.

And that's how a lot of times how people get a drug of choice by their life experiences.

Behavior that supports survival, not only aids in survival, it also creates a pleasurable feeling that reinforces that behavior.

Once we go outside of a normal mood, we will behave to produce a feeling of normal mood and depression is feeling that you will not survive.

And that's what a lot of people really get into.

So We talked about serotonin, dopamine, GABA, norepinephrine, endorphins.

Serotonin, let me go back, I actually hid this slide, but serotonin is the 1 that really relaxes you.

It makes you feel satisfied and you get it.

The way that you actually get serotonin is that the precursor is an amino acid called tryptophan.

And what tryptophan does is it goes through the blood brain barrier, it goes into your brain and your brain is able to put serotonin together and make serotonin, and you feel satisfied.

But it's also very sensitive to insulin and how much carbohydrate you eat.

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Eric Walsh: Rumbles in the Mind

Mind Numbing, Soul Shocking: The Pathophysiology of Addiction

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