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Volkow

Nora Volkow, an American neuroscientist who studies how addiction changes the brain. She directs the US National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, Anna Lembke

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• Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence, Anna Lembke
• The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease, Marc Lewis

  Nora Volkow, an American psychiatrist and brain researcher, director of NIDA since 2003. One of the leading advocates of the view that addiction is a brain disease.

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