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EARLY RELEASE UNLOCKED - Never Enough: The Neuroscience of Addiction
🕑 Added 2021-05-21 03:16:47 +0000 UTCDr. Judith Grisel, former addict and behavioral neuroscientist, joins Breht to discuss her life experiences and her fascinating book "Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction".
We discuss how addiction works at the level of the brain and how it feels at the level of experience. We also discuss multiple substances specifically, including marijuana, alcohol, caffeine, MDMA, and more. At the end, we talk about policy approaches to addiction, how America gets it wrong, how we should approach it societally, and then Judy offers some tips for how to prevent addiction and some hope for those who are struggling with it.
Learn more about Judy here: https://www.bucknell.edu/meet-bucknell/bucknell-stories/faculty-stories/judith-grisel-psychology
Find her book here: https://www.audible.com/pd/Never-Enough-Audiobook/1984841076
The Men's Health article mentioned in the episode: https://www.menshealth.com/health/a26146242/marijuana-weed-addiction-recovery-brain-science/
Comments
Eoghan
Just getting around to listening to this ep now but the way Judith explains how the brain basically tries to counter the effects of a drug by producing the opposite chemicals which is what causes withdrawal and builds tolerance was like a lightbulb moment for me. Had never thought about it before and makes so much sense just thinking of my own experience. Great ep!
Victims of Social Democracy
about the psychedelics: now it makes sense to me why the CIA would push LSD so much among the youth in the '60s. It could only enlarge the gap between promising new student leaders and the. ploretarian masses.
