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Before we get started here, I want to take a call.

Let's go on out to Betty. Betty what's up?

Hi Dr Drew. I'd like to know if after long-term crack cocaine use there's evidence of brain damage, and if a CAT scan shows it, does it,

is it helpful at all in treating that person?

Unfortunately, you can show addicts all the evidence in the world of everything you can

imagine about the consequences of their condition and none of it makes a damn bit of

difference.

But let me do answer your question specifically.

On a CAT scan, no, you will not see changes unless there's been a stroke,

which can happen from cocaine particularly.

The CAT scan will not show it. A functional MRI scan

definitely shows all kinds of changes as does a spec scan. But if you remember back in Slibly Rehab or I was treating Dennis Rodman and Heidi Fleisch,

I went and did spec scans on them, showed them the massive areas of dysfunction in their brain,

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