In this video, Dr. Kanojia breaks down the science behind why video game addiction can cause other activities to become less fun.
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For over 30 years, Joy battled addiction. Now with four years in recovery, she tells her story.
Over 24 million people over the age of 12 are addicted to alcohol. Over 20 million Americans suffer from a drug addiction of some type. Addiction is a serious issue that costs hundreds of billions of dollars per year in related costs, lost work productivity, and health care expenses.
Hank describes how our brains respond biochemically to various addictive substances and behaviors and where those responses have come from, evolutionarily speaking.
Neuroscientist Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the NIH, applies a lens of addiction to the obesity epidemic.
We all have habits, but our habits can come to control us. Learn how habits become addictions and how to overcome them with Dr. Jud Brewer.
This is a powerful and potentially life altering conversation about the nature of addiction and the science of habit change.