This is a must watch for families and addicts:
http://www.worldsciencefestival.com...-craving-brain/
THE CRAVING BRAIN: THE NEUROSCIENCE OF UNCONTROLLABLE URGES
Participants:
Nora D. Volkow is the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at NIH
Kim Janda is a professor of chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute whose research efforts merge biology and chemistry.
Eric Nestler is a neuroscientist, professor of psychiatry, and chair of the neuroscience department at Mount Sinai
Amir Levine is an adult, adolescent, and child psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Columbia University in New York and The Center of Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto.
I just finished watching this and "wow", very powerful and insightful. I have forwarded this to my extended family and anyone else I feel could benefit from this. Thank you for sharing, it is long but well worth it!
