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Drug addiction: a chronic disease of the brain

Nora Volkow, MD, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health, shares insights on drug addiction and future treatments.


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Up Next

  • What role does dopamine play in addiction?

  • Is addiction a mental illness?

  • Why are prescription pain medications addictive?

  • Addiction risk: factors to consider

  • What does science tell us about pain and addiction?

  • The truth about food addiction

  • Long-term effects of opioid use

  • How is addiction treated?

  • Hacking your brain's "reward system" to change habits

  • Why are addictions so hard to break?

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