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Podcast: Addiction Education
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Addiction is a Brain Disease and it Matters
Category: Health
Duration: 00:25:55
Publish Date: 2007-12-29 11:00:00
Description: Many people also erroneously still believe that drug addiction is simply a failure of will or of strength of character. Research contradicts that position. Dr. ALAN I. LESHNER ( Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) from 1994-2001) Explains why addiction is a brain disorder and how that impacts treatment and society.
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