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Meet Dr. Nora Volkow, whose research on drugs and the brain helped us understand addiction as a disease. Nora Volkow is the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. She’s not your average general in the war on drugs. The troops commands are kids; the ammunition: science. It was Volkow’s curiosity as a young adult that ultimately led her to this battlefield.
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Video Duration: 00:05:58
Original Program Date: Thursday, January 1, 1970
Meet Dr. Nora Volkow, whose research on drugs and the brain helped us understand addiction as a disease. Nora Volkow is the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. She’s not your average general in the war on drugs. The troops commands are kids; the ammunition: science. It was Volkow’s curiosity as a young adult that ultimately led her to this battlefield.
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TAGS: 2013, Dr Nora Volkow, National Institute on Drug Abuse, neurobiology, NIDA, Pioneer, Pioneers in Science, research on drugs, research on drugs and the brain, understand addiction, understand addiction as a disease, 2013, Dr Nora Volkow, National Institute on Drug Abuse, neurobiology, NIDA, Pioneer, Pioneers in Science, research on drugs, research on drugs and the brain, understand addiction, understand addiction as a disease
PLAYLISTS: Women In Science, Pioneers in Science
Video Duration: 00:05:58
Original Program Date: Thursday, January 1, 1970
Nora D. Volkow is the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at NIH. She pioneered the use of brain imaging to investigate the effects of drugs in the human brain and has demonstrated that drug addiction is a brain disease.
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