Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180630:06:33:00
>> 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 egregious. you're telling someone whose brain is fundamentally changed 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. you substitute lower dose slightly safer opioids lik...