Hooked: Why Bad Habits Are Hard to Break

Published November 20, 2012

Hooked: Why bad habits are hard to break – Dr. Nora Volkow, the head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has revolutionized how science and medicine view addiction: as a disease, not a character defect. Morley Safer reports.

NIH Nixes Idea of Creating a Single Abuse and Addiction Institute

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NIH Director Francis Collins said on Friday that the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism will stay separate. But, he added that some "functional integration of existing research resources" at the …
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