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Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home; 102; The Hijacked Brain

Date: 1998-03-29

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.

Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home; 103; Changing Lives

Date: 1998-03-30

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.

Moyers on Addiction: Close to Home; 104; The Next Generation

Date: 1998-03-31

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.