Traditional thinking about addiction suggests that addicts have a brain disease or addictive personalities. This hour, we’ll talk about the possibility that alcoholics, drug abusers and compulsive gamblers may actually suffer from a learning disorder with Maia Szalavitz. She explores the idea in “Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction” (St. Martin’s Press).
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