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How Addiction Comes To The Community

A look at how misconceptions of treatment, abstinence-only solutions hamper intervention.

Aired 07/21/2021

QED With Dr. B

How Addiction Comes To The Community

Clip: Season 1 Episode 13 | 7m 29sVideo has Closed Captions

A look at how misconceptions of treatment, abstinence-only solutions hamper intervention.

Dr. Carl Hart, psychologist and neuroscientist at Columbia University discusses the fact that factors often attributed to addiction were often in the community long before addiction took hold. He explains how misconceptions of treatment and abstinence-only solutions hamper intervention.

Aired 07/21/2021

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QED With Dr. B is a local public television program presented by WOSU

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Support for QED with Dr. B is provided by Battelle, American Electric Power Foundation, Bath & Body Works Foundation, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and William and Diane Dawson Foundation.

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