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That all they have to do is just say no when those circuits that mediate those aspects of cognition are altered. >> that's why hurd says abstinence programs are usually only 5% to 10% effective. there is more success, however, with what's called medication assisted treatment m.a.t. these drugs do reduce the risk of overdosing by more than 50% but hurd's biggest concern is dill dependent on opioids and as you see that means the brain disease of addiction is never fully treated and why she started to focus on the cba in cannabis no out only treat the underlying pain but to also heal the brain. >...

Looks like. opioids have damaged these receptors, the glutomate receptors in the prefrontal cortex of the brain making it harder to make decisions, use good judgment, making it harder to just say no. >> the craving is so prominent. it's so enormous that they can't stop themselves. >> even if they want to stop they can't. their newly wired brain won't let them. it could help explain why some therapies to treat addiction aren't successful. take abstinence. >> i think it's e agree jous. you're telling someone whose brain is fundamentally changed that all they have to do is just say no when those ...

But as you point out in, in red and blue states alike this is a very powerful issue. the republicans really gave the democrats a softball right over the plate because in the past, the way republicans have used abortion as a wedge issue is to focus on very rare late pregnancy abortions and use gruesome imagery and all that. now, they have sort of even half forgot about abortion as they go against contraception, women's health care, even in texas, some of the money that would be eliminated goes abstinence programs for school -- you know, for children in school. so i think democrats, even they ca...

The republicans really gave the democrats a softball right over the plate because in the past, the way republicans have used abortion as a wedge issue is to focus on very rare late pregnancy abortions and use gruesome imagery and all that. now, they have sort of even half forgot about abortion as they go against contraception, women's health care, even in texas, some of the money that would be eliminated goes abstinence programs for school -- you know, for children in school. so i think democrats, even they can't screw this up. they could. and also this it is the right thing to do who are they...

Sex and abstinence. the obama administration had had cut out more than $170 million in annual federal funding for the abstinence programs and instead put more than $100 million towards other times of sex ed programs. but based on the new findings officials now suggest similar abstinence programs could be eligible for federal dollars. some call the abstinence research game changing that, it comes after years of getting a bad rap. the critics say the curriculum and the study isn't a good sample. they said the class study didn't take a moral tone. it encouraged them to wait to have sex until read...