Talks & Articles
Talks (selected)
- Addiction and trust. Presentation at TEDx–Radboud University, 29 May 2013
- Craving, dopamine, and the cycle of addictive behaviour. Conversation with the Dalai Lama at the Mind & Life “Dialogue,” Craving, Desire, and Addiction, Dharamsala, 28 October 2013
- Learning addiction. Presentation hosted by Johann Hari at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Sydney Opera House, 6 September 2015
- Technophilia. Discussion with Martin Ford at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Sydney Opera House, 6 September 2015
- Why addiction is not a disease. The Middle Way (annotated) podcast with Barry Daniel, 4 October 2015
- Reflections on the science and experience of addiction. Final presentation at the Nobel Conference on Addiction, Gustavus Adolphus College, 7 October 2015
- Is addiction a disease? Two experts weigh in on the issue. Debate with George Koob, CBC radio, 9 July 2016
- London thinks: Is addiction a disease? Interview/presentation at Conway Hall, London, 13 July 2016
- The neuroscience of addiction: development, not disease. Presentation at the Royal Institution, London, 14 July 2016
- Tricks of the mind. Guardian Books podcast, 12 September 2016
- Drugs, desire, and disease–neuroscience and addiction. Public debate, David Winston Turner Endowment Fund, Melbourne, 21 October 2016
- A brain disease…or what? Public lecture and debate (with Nora Volkow), Amsterdam Brain and Cognition, Amsterdam, 9 January 2018
- Is addiction a brain disease? And does it matter? P. Browning Hoffman Memorial Lecture in Law and Psychiatry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA, 15 March, 2018
- Addiction as learning: narrowing brains in narrowing environments. Lecture and webcast, University of Bergen, Sogndal, Norway, 4 September 2019
- Overcoming addiction with neuroscience and IFS. The Weekend University podcast series, September, 2021
- Rethinking addiction, with Gabor Mate, Richard Schwartz & Marc Lewis. The Weekend University Podcast series, 15 October, 2021
- Neuroscience, social isolation and addiction. Eat Move Think podcast, 1 November 2021
- Changing currents in our understanding and treatment of addiction: Putting brain and behaviour back together again. Lecture/webcast, University of Oregon, 10 March 2022
- Alcohol, addiction and the brain. The Alcohol ‘Problem’ Podcast with James Morris, 7 July 2022
- The Real Shape of Addictive Behaviour: Social, Psychological and Neural Factors, Lecture/webcast at Willamette University, Oregon, 18 November, 2022
- Inside the Mind: Marc Lewis on Transformative Healing with Internal Family Systems Therapy. Voices with Vervaeke podcast, 12 July 2024.
Articles (selected)
- Neuroscientist Marc Lewis on his First Acid Trip. Newsweek, 19 March 2012
- Dopamine: Duality of Desire. The Scientist, 1 May 2012
- Addiction Is a Bad Habit That Can Be Learned and Unlearned. New York Times, 10 February 2014
- Why we’re hardwired to hate uncertainty. The Guardian (US), 4 April 2016
- What LSD tells us about human nature. The Guardian (US), 15 April 2016
- Why it’s wrong to call addiction a disease. The Guardian (US), 7 June 2016
- Here’s why there are no good or bad drugs–not even heroin. The Guardian (US), 14 July 2016
- Is addiction really a disease? Inner Life, The Observer/The Guardian (UK), 24 July 2016
- Why is the US banning kratom, the virtually harmless herb? The Guardian (US), 9 September 2016
- The addiction habit. Aeon, 14 December 2016
- We need ecstasy and opioids in place of Prozac and Xanax. Aeon, 15 May 2017
- Why are so many people dying from opiate overdoses? It’s our broken society. The Guardian (international), 10 July 2017
- The truth about the US ‘opioid crisis’ — prescriptions aren’t the problem. The Guardian (international), 7 November 2017
- Why the disease model of addiction does far more harm than good. Scientific American, 9 February, 2018
- Brain change in addiction as learning, not disease. New England Journal of Medicine, 18 October, 2018
- A conversation about shame and self-compassion, TruHealing blog, 10 February, 2022
(Please note that article titles are determined by the publisher, not the author.)
Informed by unparalleled neuroscientific insight and written with his usual flare, Marc Lewis’s The Biology of Desire effectively refutes the medical view of addiction as a brain disease. A bracing and informative corrective to the muddle that now characterizes public and professional discourse on this topic.” —Gabor Maté, M.D., author of In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction
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