Dr. Nora Volkow explains addiction as a brain disease. This segment shows an informal therapy session where Dr. Volkow goes over the environmental, behavioral and genetic factors that make an individual susceptible to addiction. She uses brain imaging to show how drugs and alcohol can alter the brain.
This segment examines what causes relapses and what can be done to help prevent relapses.
This segment looks at how different people need different treatments and gives insight on how to find a treatment provider and select the treatment that's right for the individual.
This segment looks at what makes adolescents more susceptible to addiction as well as two effective treatments for adolescents: multisystemic therapy and residential treatment.
Dr. Nora Volkow discusses addiction as a brain disease, the stigma of addiction, adolescent addicts and relapse. She also discusses therapies and treatments that can help the brain recover.
Dr. Mark Willenbring talks about the factors that can lead to alcoholism, how to recognize the symptoms and where to find an effective treatment program.
Dr. Michael Dennis discusses adolescents' higher susceptibility to drugs and how they respond well to treatment when it is implemented quickly.
Dr. Kathleen Brady talks about how psychological disorders can lead to addiction problems.
Dr. Robert Meyers explains his method for helping families learn how to help their loved ones with addictions. His method is called CRAFT or Community Reinforcement and Family Training.
Doctors at Acadia Hospital in Maine provide a look at a new drug, buprenorphine, which is being used in place of methadone in treating opiate addictions.
This film looks at drug courts as an alternative to incarcerating repeat, non-violent drug offenders. In the drug courts addicts receive treatment. This film focuses on a drug court in South Boston.
The real life story of Donna who called the police in order to save her daughter Aubrey who had been addicted to heroin for seven years. This segment shows the emotional impact the addiction has on both mother and daughter and their struggle to keep Aubrey clean.