What changes in the Brain with regards to an Addiction

12/18/20 • 11 min

The Recovery Show hosted By Shirvington Hannays, RDT

What can't a person with an Addiction just get their act together and just stop using the drug of choice or the behaviour they have lost control to. What then is the key to understand to have managed recovery.

Previous Episode

The Brain, Substances and Behaviours

This episode explores and looks at what happens in the body; the Brain more specifically after substances enters the body and gets to the place it usually has an effect at or on. Put another way, what the drugs or substance does to the body and what the body does to the substance or drug once it gets into the body.

Next Episode

Addiction is not a Disease

In this episode I take the position and present several arguments in support of my theory that addiction is not a Disease. However, that it can be argued that due to substance abuse and misuse, areas of the Brain becomes altered and as such its functioning in the affected areas are altered.