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Dr. Nora Volkow: How Drug Addiction Hijacks the Brain

2013

Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, explains addiction pharmacologically and looks at how drugs of abuse take control of the reward systems in the brain.

02:47 min

16:23

Why Do Our Brains Get Addicted?

Neuroscientist Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the NIH, applies a lens of addiction to the obesity epidemic.

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50:20

The First Truth of Recovery: Addiction Creates Suffering with Noah Levine

The path of Refuge Recovery begins with the First Truth: addiction creates suffering. This is not a philosophy. It is a practice; it demands action. We must understand, acknowledge, admit, and accept all the ways addiction has caused suffering in our lives.

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32:04

Dr. Jud Brewer on “Everyday Addictions”

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.

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01:56:13

Breaking Bad (Habits): Dr. Jud Brewer | Rich Roll Podcast

This is a powerful and potentially life altering conversation about the nature of addiction and the science of habit change.

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Drug Addiction