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Thursday, October 25, 2007
Nora Volkow: Check Your Addiction List

Here’s (almost) everything you need to satisfy your appetite for knowledge about leading addiction expert Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health.

  • NPR Interview: No, Really, This Is Your Brain on Drugs

  • Named to the Time 100 list of people who shape our world.

  • Named to the Newsweek list of ones to watch in 2007.

  • Addiction and the Brain’s Pleasure Pathway: Beyond Willpower, her article and video from HBO’s addiction series.

  • She is Leon Trotsky’s great-granddaughter.

  • You can hear Dr. Nora Volkow discuss addiction in person at the Y on Monday, November 19.


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