Why do people succumb to drug, alcohol, gambling and food addictions? Today, science is playing a bigger role in understanding why people become addicted and how to curb these dangerous behaviours.
While society often continues to stigmatise addiction, we're increasingly understanding that addiction is a genuine medical condition that has a neurological basis. This has resulted in innovative treatments, better education, and significant research that’s disrupting the exploitation of addicts by the tobacco, gambling and fast-food giants.
We're increasingly understanding that addiction is a genuine medical condition that has a neurological basis.
In this episode of A Different Lens, Monash experts discuss the research that's helping change the way we view and treat different forms of addiction.
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Featuring
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Charles Livingstone
Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine; Head, Gambling and Social Determinants unit, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
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Wendy Brown
Professor, Surgery Alfred Hospital
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Dan Lubman
Professor Addiction Studies and Services, Monash University and Director, Turning Point and Monash Addiction Research Centre
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Chris Langmead
Professor (Research), Neuromedicines Discovery Centre (NDC), Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Victorian Heart Institute (VHI)
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Marie Yap
NHMRC Career Development Fellow, Senior Research Fellow & Psychologist
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Murat Yucel
Former Professor (Research), Psychology
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Antonio Verdejo-Garcia
Professor (Research), Turner Institute For the Brain and Mental Health
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Kate Seear
ARC Future Fellow
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Dennis Petrie
Associate Professor & ARC DECRA Fellow, Centre for Health Economics
