PODCAST · health
Addiction Education
by NAABT, Inc.
Recent research is showing many of the old assumptions about addiction are untrue.
Episodes
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Mike's Story - Part 1 of 3
Meet Mike. An average middle-class American, raised and living in the heartland. Married, 3 children, 2 grandchildren. A loving husband and father, Mike was very active and present in his family's lives until he hurt himself at work in 1999. At that point, he was prescribed opioid painkillers. He...
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Mike's Story - Part 2 of 3
Prior to this point in his life, Mike had thought people who became addicted were making a choice to take drugs. He never thought it could happen to him. He decided he had to stop. Each time he tried, he got violently ill withdrawals and his dosage increased to 70, 80, 100 pills a day. "The one...
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Mike's Story - Part 3 of 3
Before becoming addicted himself, Mike thought that addiction was a choice. With an uncontrollable compulsion to take more and more pills, and an inability to 'just stop', he soon realized that addiction is a chronic medical condition. He had to get better. His intense research about the...
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Addiction is a Brain Disease and it Matters
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...
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Recent research is showing many of the old assumptions about addiction are untrue.
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