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The closure of several Colorado libraries due to meth contamination has put the spotlight back on the methamphetamine epidemic, which is sometimes called “the silent epidemic.”
I'm about to have my brain scanned, as part of a series of tests i'll undergo here at the university of california's addiction lab in los angeles. the team, led by clinical psychologist, laura ray, is studying how alcohol affects the brain, and with the data, searching for a pharmacological intervention, a pill to help people quit. >> i have a low-res picture of lisa's brain here. >> unlike opiates that affect one part of the brain, alcohol is a messy drug. it targets multiple systems at once. >> when we start drinking, the blood alcohol level going up, we feel talkative, more comfortable in s...
Enough of a workforce of physicians who are on the front lines identifying and treating alcohol problems. we want to change the system really from the inside out, giving patients other options. >> options like the medications the team at the addiction lab are testing. and according to billy, the pills he's taking are working. >> so, when you first were given >> so when you first were given the pills, any side effects or anything like that? >> in the first two days, i was upset in the stomach. but by the third day, i was off alcohol, which was pretty amazing, i thought. >> you just didn't feel ...
>> right now i don't think we enough of a workforce of physicians who are on the front lines identifying and treating alcohol problems. we want to change the system really from the inside out, giving patients other options. >> options like the medications the team at the addiction lab are testing. and according to billy, the pills he's taking are working. >> so, when you first were given the pills, any side effects or anything like that. >> in the first two days, i was upset in the stomach. by the third day i was on it, i was off of alcohol, which is pretty amazing, i thought. >> just didn't f...
Tests i'll undergo here at the university of california's addiction lab in los angeles. the team, led by clinical psychologist, laura ray, is studying how alcohol affects the brain, and with the data, searching for a pharmacological intervention, a pill to help people quit. >> now we have a low-res picture of lisa's brain here. >> unlike opiates that affect one part of the brain, alcohol is what many scientists refer to as a messy drug. it targets multiple systems at once. >> when we start drinking, the blood alcohol level going up, we feel talkative, more comfortable in social settings. when ...