Substance Abuse Education

Dr. Kevin McCauley asks the question, “Is addiction really a disease?

Dr. Gabor Maté talks about the link between stressed parenting and the preponderance of childhood disorders.
Former Flight Surgeon Dr. Kevin McCauley presents his keynote address entitled “The Neuroscience of Addiction”
The last twenty years produced an explosion of understanding about addiction (substance use disorders) and how our brains enable our most human capacities such as assigning value to pleasure and making decisions based upon that value. This lecture summarizes the most current neuroscientific research about addiction — research that explains how the brain constructs pleasurable experiences, what happens when this process goes wrong and why this can have a dramatic impact on our ability to make proper choices.
Book Author Dr. Gabor Mate:
“In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts”

Is addiction the biggest crisis we’ve ever faced? Can we do anything about it? In a candid conversation about addiction, Dr. Gabor Maté and Joe Polish define what addiction is and why it’s actually a solution to pain.
