The Future of Addiction

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Natural Sciences, Science

4.3 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2014

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Highly addictive substances like meth and heroine are formidable enemies for the recovering addict, but what does the future hold for their treatment? In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Julie explore the use of electromagnetic stimula

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:03.2	Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from How Stuff Works.com.
0:16.1	Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind.
0:18.0	My name is Robert Lamb.
0:19.1	And I'm Julie Douglas.
0:20.2	We just published an episode the other day on the science of addiction.
0:25.0	And this is kind of the part two.
0:27.3	I mean, you can probably listen to this episode without having listened to the previous one,
0:30.5	but they go well together.
0:32.6	So we recommend that viewing order, let listening order, rather.
0:36.4	This episode is going to look at the future of addiction.
0:40.6	And we're not talking about just what kind of crazy drugs will they have in the future.
0:44.5	No,
0:44.8	we're talking about how can we treat addiction in the future.
0:47.9	What are some of the cutting edge and emerging techniques and technologies that will be at our disposal
0:54.0	to deal with the disease of
0:56.5	addiction.
0:57.1	Yeah, and before we look at the future stuff, let's just kind of look at what's going on in
1:00.8	the present.
1:01.4	The number one driver of AIDS in the world is used heroin needles, particularly in countries
1:08.0	where there's no needle exchange programs.
1:11.6	So what if you could get rid of the root problem?
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