Nora Volkow - The Emerging Science of Addictions

The science is clear: addiction is a brain disease. It affects more than 22 million Americans and their families each year. Despite evolving, cutting-edge treatments that work, fewer than 20 percent of people get the care they need - and most don’t get care in a health care system. What will the future of addiction treatment bring? Will providers finally take up medication-assisted treatment as they should? Will heath reforms encourage greater attention to addictions in health care systems? Hear from the nation’s top neurobiologist, NIDA Director Nora Volkow, on what we can expect - and what we can change - in addiction prevention and treatment research.
Speaker:
Nora Volkow
Psychiatrist, Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse

[@ced7007]

It would have been nice to be able to see her slides. Thank you Dr. Nora Volkow for sharing your studies. You have helped so many to understand the disease.

[@eepeed]

I agree about your views on "forced rock bottom" is bullshit, it IS counterintuitive, some people's rock bottom may be death or to a point where their perceived lack of support from the people forcing the rock bottom leads to a point of no return, to a mental state where the whole dug is so deep that recovery and recovery time takes a too much time, to a point where the addict has experienced so much trama that even a life in recovery on that level has become so much of a struggle that it's just as bad as struggling with substance abuse.

[@mrchoon2010]

16k views and only 11 comments?

[@nayphomanic]

I would like to review this study. Who and how many people participated IN the program. How did they make that jump. NOT everyone is going to become addicted nor are they going to commit suicide...if pain management medication is taken as prescribed....I see NO reason to assume that the patient is /WOULD/will take lethal dose. Then you have pain management that isn't managed at all...due to the medical professionals who won't/ CAN'T do whatever needed to relieve the pain of the patient. They have access to tools that will identify damage in patients yet won't/ CAN'T fix them more often than NOT..because that same patient hasn't the financial means to pay for the care required....catch 22. Even with the Obama care package...still fall far short of the greed I found NOT so much the physician but the administration has in putting more care and worry in payments for service than the service needed for the patient. I'd love to have a sit down chat with Nora Volkow....the sooner the better

[@mrchoon2010]

You sound like you know what you're talking about. I don't accept Dr. Volkow's model of addiction. Personally, I believe we can better help those in need if we stop blaming the drugs, and start looking at the real reason they are addicted.

[@timc.anon.9293]

@@mrchoon2010 The reason they are addicted is the genetics they are born with.
Addiction to drugs and alcohol is not causal.

[@mrchoon2010]

@@timc.anon.9293 Possibly. Have you read the work of Dr. Gabor Maté?

[@mrchoon2010]

@timc.anon.9293 Possibly. Are you familiar with the work of Gabor Maté?

[@m1hal1s12]

Porn addiction/ drug addiction/ gambling addiction / the worst trifecta

[@mrchoon2010]

Food addiction, sex addiction, shopping addiction,
The list goes on
They are not separate things