Tracey Helton Mitchell joins us to talk about how she eventually got clean and became a stable mother of three after being addicted to heroin for nearly a decade.
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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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‘Embedding’ Into The Story
This hour, as we broadcast from NPR Headquarters in Washington, we’ll talk to Kelly McEvers about “Embedded,” her new podcast.
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