This hour on Think, we explore the topic of addiction with a former heroin addict, a historian who writes about America’s relationship with alcohol and a neuroscientist who studies the brains of addicts.
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How An Addict’s Brain Is Wired
Rita Z. Goldstein, an addiction specialist with Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, joins us to talk about the latest addiction research.
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Breaking Bad Habits
Dr. Judson Brewer joins us to talk about how we can regain control of our impulses.
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The Rise Of Addictive Technologies
Adam Alter joins us to talk about how the makers of smartphones and other products have cracked the code of behavioral addiction – and how we can gain control of our impulses.
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A New Understanding Of Addiction
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, author of “Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction.”
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The Power Of Pills
This hour, we’ll talk about how people develop a dependence to prescription drugs – and how pain pills and anti-depressants differ from street drugs – with experts who treat prescription-drug addicts.
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