Addiction Resources

Background
  • Drugs, Brains, and Behavior: The Science of Addiction
    Evidence-based information about what drug misuse and addiction is, what happens in the brain, and how to treat and prevent.
  • How Addiction Changes Brain Processes
    A 4-minute video where students learn how addiction changes brain processes.
  • Everything You Think You Know About Addiction is Wrong
    A 15-minute Ted Talk discussing what causes addiction and looking at better ways we can treat it from the personal point of view and experience of the presenter, Johann Hari.
  • How Addiction Happens
    A 7-minute video addressing teens and the basic ‘ingredients’ of addiction, how it can happen, and how it might be prevented. Created by a family in response to a lived experience. 
  • Addiction, The Brain, and Treatment
    A 4-minute video that shows students how the brain can get rewired making addiction as well as treatment possible.
  • Heroin and Veterans
    A 3-minute NBC newscast video about heroin use by veterans,looking at one person’s personal story. 
  • Why Are Drugs So Hard To Quit?
    A Kahoot science game that helps students understand the science of addiction. (NIH: National Institutes of Health)
  • Alcohol and Your Brain
    A 4-minute video-simulated roller-coaster ride through the brain to learn about the harmful effects of alcohol on five different brain structures.
  • What is Tolerance?
    A 3-minute video explaining the science behind tolerance in relation to addiction. (Detox to Rehab series)
  • Methods of Drug Administration
     An 8- minute video summary of the methods of drug administration. When a patient must be administered a drug in a medical setting, how does this occur? Pills or tablets can be ingested orally. There are topical creams, tubes, injections, and more. How does each one work, and why would one select that method over another? From the ‘Professor Dave Explains’ video library. 
  • Pharmacokinetics: How Drugs Move Through the Body
    An 8-minute video that explains pharmacokinetics, which is how drugs move around the body to get to where they need to go. From the ‘Professor Dave Explains’ video library. 
  • Pharmacodynamics: Mechanisms of Drug Actions
    An 8-minute video that explains pharmacodynamics, which is how drugs interact with target proteins to elicit particular cellular response and psychological effect. From the ‘Professor Dave Explains’ video library.
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