Module 1: Understanding Addiction
Defining and Re-defining Addiction
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4:15 - Watch how drugs interact in the brain and how each drug reacts in the process of dopamine.
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Addiction Neuroscience 101
This is an overview of the neurobiology of addiction
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14:32 - He started to wonder why we treat addicts the way we do -- and if there might be a better way. As he shares in this deeply personal talk, his questions took him around the world, and unearthed some surprising and hopeful ways of thinking about an age-old problem.
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How Childhood Trauma Leads to Addiction - Gabor Maté
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