Talk Categories: Addiction
Going blind at 45: Finding purpose after darkness
At 45, Freddy Petrone lost his sight—and found a deeper vision. In this gripping TEDx talk, Freddy shares his raw journey through addiction, depression, and the moment everything went dark—literally. But instead of giving up, he reached out.
In The Crossfire of Opioid Addiction
Caitlin Thompson grew up as a child of a parent with an opioid addiction. Now as an adult and a parent herself, she shares how having a parent with an addiction affected her in childhood as well as in her adult life.
Misunderstanding dopamine: Why the language of addiction matters
Dopamine is the star of our conversations about motivation and addiction. But journalists, marketers, and app developers alike have missed some critical details. Understanding how dopamine really works to motivate our everyday behaviors–and what goes wrong in drug addiction–is the key to more productive thinking about our ‘bad habits,’ as well as today’s opioid crisis.
What I learned from hiring hundreds of former inmates
Margo Walsh is the founder of MaineWorks, an award-winning staffing company that hires individuals in recovery from addiction and those reentering society after incarceration. In this talk, she shares her deeply personal journey from early sobriety to building a social enterprise that reimagines what it means to give someone a second chance.
Why 1st Person Language Can Save A Life
The language around addiction often acts as label rather than a definition for a disease. Rebecca Throop, a mother, wife, runner, marketing executive, lover of pretzels and also a recovering alcoholic, is changing how people talk about addition by introducing 1st-person language in exchange for labels.
