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Dr. Carran talks about how addiction is one of the diseases that has the capacity to damage every single organ system in the body. Perhaps the organ system that is most familiar and in some ways best demonstrates the capacity of the disease of addiction to do damage is the liver.

Dr. Todd Carran is based at TheRidgeOhio.com, based just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio, which is a full service residential drug & alcohol treatment center.

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Understanding

Dr. Todd Carran gives an overview of the disease of addiction and briefly introduces the changes in the brain during addiction.

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Pathology

Dr. Todd Carran talks about the progressive pathophysiology of the brain in greater detail that occurs from mood-altering substances.

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Psychology

Dr. Todd Carran talks about the psychological factors that make people more susceptible to the disease of addiction.

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Relapse

With the addiction, relapse is common and potentially deadly. Dr. Carran talks about the current state of the art of dealing with relapse.

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Smoking

Dr. Todd Carran talks about the correlations between smoking and addictive behaviors and the importance of giving up smoking.

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Brain Imaging

Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), discusses what happens in the human brain from addiction to drugs.

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Brain Disease

Dr. Nora Volkow of the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) presents a seminar on "Addiction as a Brain Disease: What Does it Mean?"

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As A Disease

Dr. McCauley presents reasons to consider addiction as a disease, based on the dopamine hypothesis, and how that translates to treatment.

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