I've come to talk to you about addiction, the power of addiction, but also addiction to power.

Alzheimer's disease, drug addiction.

We share an addiction.

Drug addiction degraded many people.

I've experienced violence, drug addiction...

Now which addiction is greater?

The word addiction is thrown around.

And that's why the real question in addiction is not, Why the addiction?, but, Why the pain?

I've also come to believe that romantic love is an addiction a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.

Yes, there is the addiction to drugs, but there is also the addiction to consumerism, there is the addiction to sex, to the internet, to shopping, to food.

The addiction to oil? Or to consumerism?

Drug addiction is a cancer in modern society.

And this particular one is about cigarette addiction.

And yet, nothing shakes them from their addiction.

And it doesn't just have to be addiction.

There really is such a thing as Internet addiction.

Even during work, I secretly indulge my Internet addiction.

Stopgap measures won't make a dent in drug addiction.

They have heroin addiction and also prostitution in Iran.

Nothing can force them to give up their addiction.

And indeed, it has all of the characteristics of addiction.

In other words, what's the person getting from the addiction?

And, if you want to understand addiction, you can't look at what's wrong with the addiction you have to look at what's right about it.

And when I was trying to understand the addiction to power,

I have a slight office supply addiction, but that's another talk.

And the addiction is ours. And the pain is occurring in Japan.

I want to show you some pieces now that are about addiction.

The thread that links them all our addiction to carbon based fuels,

And also these are signals that go awry in disorders such as addiction.

They're all being harmed greatly by this addiction that we have to disposability.

I'm sorry Cyd, but you don't seem willing to work on your addiction.

Shame is highly, highly correlated with addiction, depression, violence, aggression, bullying, suicide, eating disorders.

The world does not need any more pipelines to wed our addiction to fossil fuels.

In the 16th century, an Italian mathematician named Cardano had a well known gambling addiction.

And as we treat it with our compound, this addiction to sugar, this rapid growth, faded.

And in his biography, he writes that the addiction was all about looking for oblivion, looking for forgetting.

These disorders schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

levels of trust, obesity, mental illness which in standard diagnostic classification includes drug and alcohol addiction and social mobility.

All of this is leading computer addiction, just to cover that the most frequent thing we do is use digital devices.

My addiction began with this strange looking diving suit called Wasp that's not an acronym just somebody thought it looked like the insect.

I'm fortunate enough to work in the rehab facility, so I get to see people who are facing life and death with addiction.

And it's got the three main characteristics of addiction tolerance, you need to see them more, and more, and more withdrawals and last, relapse.

You'd think you'd be singing Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah out in the majesty of the ocean, not songs about heroin addiction in New York City.

Actually, HlV's about sex and drugs, and if there are two things that make human beings a little bit irrational, they are erections and addiction.

We have research that shows us, in addiction studies, that an intensely positive experience is as likely to trigger relapse as an intensely negative experience.