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Podcast: High Truths on Drugs and Addiction
Episode: 227. Dr. Mark Gold | Historical aspects of the field of Addiction
Description: Dr. Mark Gold gives a historical perspective on field of addiction from the original research of the brain disorder to current events.
Dr. Mark Gold is a frequent contributor to Psychology Today.
Dr. Mark Gold is an inventor, pioneering translational researcher, Eminent Scholar, Distinguished Professor, & Chairman whose career in translational neuroscience began in 1972. His theories have changed the field, stimulated research, and led to new treatments. Gold, while at the YSOM, proposed a novel brain mechanism and changes to explain opioid dependence and withdrawal, and discovered the anti-withdrawal efficacy of alpha-2 adrenergic agonists-clonidine and lofexidine...