Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Drugs Edition

On the Media | Aug 25, 2017

Drugs: they’re everywhere. In our medicine cabinets, the books we read, the movies we watch, and the communities in which we live. What isn’t common: reliable and accurate information about drug use and addiction.

In the latest edition of Breaking News Consumer’s Handbook, we confront the most pervasive myths about drug use, addiction, and prescription. Bob talks to Debbie Dowell of the Centers for Disease Control; Dr. Carl Hart of Columbia University and author of High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society; and finally, Maia Szalavitz, author of Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction.

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