Dr. Gabor Mate on How Addiction Changes the Brain – Full Sho

Dr. Gabor Mate on how addiction changes the brain – full sho – How does addiction change the brain? According to Dr. Gabor Mate, it’s a difficult struggle for hard core drug addicts to kick their habit because their brai…

High Price: Drugs, Neuroscience, and Discovering Myself by Carl Hart – review

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Over 40 years ago President Richard Nixon declared war on "public enemy No 1" in the US – drug abuse. Since then, aggressive US anti-drug policies have continued unabated, with over $ 1 trillion spent on law enforcement and over 45 million people …
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Can people really be addicted to sex?

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The second way we can proceed is to use scientific evidence that bypasses people's reports about what they can and can't do. Again, the case of drug addiction is a good example: some of the neurological changes in the brain of addicts seem to be …
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1.7 million drug addicts in Iran, latest figures reveal

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Share. Tweet. NCRI – The number of drug addicts in Iran has soared to 1.7 million – with 3056 people dying from drug abuse in the past year, according to official regime figures. The age of the youngest drug addicts has also fallen to just 13, reports …
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