Dr. Nii Addy, professor, researcher: Neurobiology of addiction
Working with Dan Doriani
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The Importance of Craving
In some of the classes I teach, this is for the medical students, first-year medical students, oftentimes I'll present the biology of craving and relapse. And then oftentimes we'll have one of our psychiatry colleagues actually bring someone who they're currently in treatment with them. That does a few things because those individuals are on a recovery journey and feel very empowered to know that what they're doing is actually helping the students have an understanding. So just to throw out one more story: A patient asked his students to imagine their favorite food; he said to take that craving and multiply it or intensify it by a thousand. He said that was the intensity with which he would crave substances even
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