OPIOD ADDICTION/SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS
View the following TedMed Talk and answer the following questions.
Why Do Our Brains Get Addicted – Neuroscientist Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the NIH, applies a lens of addiction to the obesity epidemic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mnd2-al4LCU&feature=youtu.be
1. Discuss the concept Volkow notes of addiction as a moral failure.
2. Relate this concept to the patient, nurse, therapist, family.
