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Task force. thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> neil: how do you deal with addiction issues? >> neil, number 1, thank you for having this conversation. and to patrick kennedy when had the courage to talk about it. first, we have to understand the disease. the american medical association talks about the disease of addiction. it's not a moral failing. so many people in society looks at addiction as a choice. it's not. it's sad when we see the outcomes often. leave behind two children. our hear goes out to his family. but we as a country have to come together. patrick talked about the number...

Wonder what went wrong? what goes wrong? you see it close. help me here. >> so glad we're talking about this. this affects so many lives. there's a fine line between physical pain and emotional pain. the utilization of drugs help squelch and numb the physical pain will we're supposed to be on this journey. what happens is, it's almost numbing the more natural pain. people don't have the opportunity or the chance to develop coping mechanisms in order to cope with the trauma, in order to cope with the emotional anguish. it shifts from using a drug to dependency to ultimately addiction. that is a...

Weight of helping the people, the foundation he settle up to do just that. helps all types of people with all types of pain and addictions. way beyond just those that were victims of shootings or survivors of shootings to everyday people dealing with stress. i remember him saying, i have never seen us so stressed out. what's going on? >> yeah, we're a culture of numbing of our feelings. what is happening, we're rewiring our brain. those endorphins are artificial when we use a drug. so our brain is no longer producing those healthy endorphins. plus, when we spend time in any form of addiction, ...

About the neuro science behind addiction. yes, there's a part of this that is about choice, especially now today that i'm sober. i have a choice to do the things that will keep me sober. if i have an active addiction, i lost the power of choice. that is why it's important for us as a society to help people recover from that so that they with make the proper choices for a sober life. >> what is so tough, congressman, seeing kids dealing with this. teen suicide at the youngest ages ever. as if a society itself has sucked each and all into this addiction. i don't know why that is. >> so what is i...

Expression, and sometimes free expression is expressing things you strongly disagree with. the fundamental view that bad speech can often be countered with good speech. if someone says something that's not true someone else has the opportunity to say, you're wrong, that's not true. that's what we're working on through our systems. >> to that i say, sister, please. i want to bring our panel in, nick confessore with the "new york times," and scott galloway, a professor at nyu's stearns school of business and founder and ceo of the business intelligence service, l2. nick, first of all, stunning r...