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There's a growing movement of people who are delaying the use of social media. all of those things because the research is coming out showing it impacts their brain. there's actually brain changes that happen over time. we don't know if those are permanent or not but we know from brain imaging studies, the more screen time, the more it affects the white matter, the connectivity in the brain. so these things are really concerning. and i think i would like to see it go the way of tobacco. that we're looking at these things as something as addictively and it changes the brain. and therefore, it's...

That it's everywhere. so in terms of that addiction component, i understand the symptoms that he is staying up all night and not eating. what are you saying about the physical addiction? does it light up the same pleasure centers that other substances do for ad victs? >> it can cause the same kind of euphoria. what is really interesting is that when you start to actually become an addict your frontal lobes, the area of the brain that gives you the judgment to say stop playing, i need to stop, those frontal lobes become impaired so it becomes increasingly difficult for an addict to stop even if...

The same way. the third thing i find most interesting and something i learned here, ana, is that when your brain section posed to opioids, within a few days the brain is changed. there's a part of the brain actually affected by that and makes it very difficult for you to use good judgment, to have good decision-making. makes it very difficult for you to just say no. >> that's why it has such a powerful hook? >> that's the addiction part of it, and no matter what, you continue taking opioids, that part of the brain does not heal. what this brand-new research here shows out of sloan-kettering in...

Anticonvulsants is one example that can get people to reduce their opioid requirement or eliminate it altogether, and another thing that is important to point out is this discussion about rolling back the medicaid expansion when it's one of the biggest funding sources for opioid abuse and substance use disorder. my last comment is that the other elephant in the room is chronic pain. not just the addiction component, but pain that's driving the need for these medicines, and that's something that need to be addressed. we have a nation that does experience chronic pain, and we need to do more for...

>> you have your mouth on this popular show. >> she looks like a hells angels person here. is that a bike she's riding? there's the hatchet. listen, you're demonizing me, but you're ridiculous, because already we're seeing duis with marijuana way up in washington state. that puts you, your family and everybody else in danger. you're going to see the same thing in colorado. there's an addiction component to marijuana. i'm not a drinker, you know that. i don't justify alcohol at all, but you don't have to get drunk when you have a glass of wine at dinner or a beer in a game. when you smoke marij...