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Drug Brains and Behavior: The Science of Addiction

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About the Course

Groundbreaking discoveries about the brain have revolutionized our understanding of compulsive drug use, enabling us to respond effectively to the problem. As a result of scientific research, we know that addiction is a medical disorder that affects the brain and changes behavior. Despite these advances, we still do not fully understand why some people become addicted to drugs or how drugs change the brain to foster compulsive drug use. This booklet aims to fill that knowledge gap by providing scientific information about the disorder of drug addiction, including the many harmful consequences of drug use and the basic approaches that have been developed to prevent and treat substance use disorders.

This course is based on the article, Drug, Brains, and Behavior: The science of Addiction created by NIDA staff in 2018.

Publication Date

NIH Publicatoin No 18-DA-5605 2018

Course Material Author

NIDA staff

NIDA staff authored the material only, and was not involved in creating this CE course. They are identified here for your own evaluation of the relevancy of the material this course is based on.

Course Creator

Keith Gibson, Ph.D.

Dr. Gibson is a Clinical Psychologist with over 30 years in research, clinical and consulting practice. He has also held leadership roles in research administration and program evaluation and more recently has specialized in program evaluation and system analysis. He draws upon his years of expertise as a practicing psychologist, administrator, researcher and technologist to help universities evaluate their programs to implement, meet, and maintain CACREP standards.

Recommended For

Addiction professionals, counselors, marriage and family therapists, nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians, psychologists and social workers. This course is appropriate for beginners.

Course Objectives:

After taking this course, you should be able to:

  1. Define addiction and list risk factors associated with addiction
  2. Describe how drugs affect the human brain
  3. Idenitfy common treatments from drug addiction

Availability

This course is available starting Jun 13th, 2019 and expires Jan 4th, 2038

Disclosure to Learners

Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships

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Course Number 102426
1 CE credit hour
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