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Medications Used to Treat Alcoholism

By Buddy T — 2020

Currently, there are only three medications approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of alcohol abuse and alcohol dependence. None of these medications are prescribed to people who are still drinking alcohol.

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The Power of Addiction and the Addiction of Power: Gabor Maté at TEDxRio

Dr. Maté is a renowned author of books and columnist known for his knowledge about attention deficit disorder, stress, chronic illness and parental relations. His theme at TEDxRio+20 was addiction - from drugs to power.

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Gabor Maté
2012
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Alcohol Dependence & Withdrawal

In this video, Dr Mike discusses how alcohol changes our brain and the specific neurotransmitters involved in dependence and withdrawal.

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2019
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Hacking Your Brain’s “Reward System” to Change Habits

How often do you feel like it is a struggle to fight your brain to break bad habits and start healthy ones? Here’s a short video that shows you the neuroscience behind why this is the case and how to hack your brain’s reward centers to get it to do the work for you.

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Judson Brewer
2020
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The Chemistry of Addiction

Hank describes how our brains respond biochemically to various addictive substances and behaviors and where those responses have come from, evolutionarily speaking.

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2012
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Why Do Our Brains Get Addicted?

Neuroscientist Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the NIH, applies a lens of addiction to the obesity epidemic.

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2015
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Breaking Bad (Habits): Dr. Jud Brewer | Rich Roll Podcast

This is a powerful and potentially life altering conversation about the nature of addiction and the science of habit change.

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Judson Brewer
2019
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Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs

Marc Lewis recovered from drug addiction and became a developmental psychologist and researcher in neuroscience.

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Marc Lewis
2013
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The Craving Mind: From Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love—Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits

In The Craving Mind Dr. Judson Brewer, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who has studied the science of addictions for twenty years, reveals how we can tap into the very processes that encourage addictive behaviors in order to step out of them.

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Judson Brewer, Jon Kabat-Zinn (foreword)
2018
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