Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home; A National Conversation
Date: 1998-02-26A live talkback on MOYERS ON ADDICTION: CLOSE TO HOME.
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Aided by powerful new diagnostic tools, scientists are making dramatic discoveries about how addiction affects the brain. We see images of a cocaine user's brain as the drug takes effect. A doctor explains how these scans reveal addiction as a chronic relapsing brain disease.
Nine men and women — all recovering from drug and/or alcohol addiction — tell their stories. Their candid testimony leaves no doubt that addiction can happen to anyone...and so can recovery.
Treatment works and behavior can be changed but there is no "one-size-fits-all" solution and recovery requires individual discipline. Bill Moyers visits innovative treatment programs, including the one that helped his son.
THE NEXT GENERATION examines how the cycle of addiction passes from generation to generation and experts are increasingly focusing on prevention efforts based on community and family to combat addiction in young people. Two organizations taking on the task of safeguarding teens are profiled.
Bill Moyers talks with people working to change American drug policy from a criminal-justice approach to a public-health model.
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