{"id":25764,"date":"2024-01-08T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hightruths.com\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=25764"},"modified":"2024-01-07T04:19:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T04:19:34","slug":"episode-159-high-truths-on-drugs-and-addiction-with-dr-nora-volkow","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/hightruths.com\/podcast\/episode-159-high-truths-on-drugs-and-addiction-with-dr-nora-volkow\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode #159 High Truths on Drugs and Addiction with Dr. Nora Volkow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Nora Volkow joins High Truths for the 4th time and 4th Season of High Truths to start the year with analysis of 2023 and hopes for 2024. Listen to see if she agree or not with Dr. Lev&#8217;s assessments.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7273\" src=\"https:\/\/hightruths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Nora-Volkow-500-copy-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hightruths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Nora-Volkow-500-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hightruths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Nora-Volkow-500-copy.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nida.nih.gov\/about-nida\/directors-page\/biography-dr-nora-volkow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nora D. Volkow, M.D.<\/a>, is Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Lev called her a rock star of medicine.<\/p>\n<p>NIDA is the world\u2019s largest funder of scientific research on the health aspects of drug use and addiction.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Volkow&#8217;s work has been instrumental in demonstrating that drug addiction is a brain disorder. As a research psychiatrist, Dr. Volkow pioneered the use of brain imaging to investigate how substance use affects brain functions. In particular, her studies have documented how changes in the dopamine system affect the functions of brain regions involved with reward and self-control in addiction. She has also made important contributions to the neurobiology of obesity, ADHD, and aging.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Volkow was born in Mexico and earned her medical degree from the National University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she received the Robins Award for best medical student of her generation. Her psychiatric residency was at New York University, where she earned a Laughlin Fellowship from The American College of Psychiatrists as one of 10 outstanding psychiatric residents in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Much of her professional career was spent at the Department of Energy\u2019s Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, where she held several leadership positions including Director of Nuclear Medicine, Chairman of the Medical Department, and Associate Laboratory Director for Life Sciences. Dr. Volkow was also a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Associate Dean of the Medical School at The State University of New York at Stony Brook.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Volkow has published more than 800 peer-reviewed articles, written more than 100 book chapters, manuscripts and articles, co-edited &#8220;Neuroscience in the 21st Century&#8221; and edited four books on brain imaging for mental and substance use disorders.<\/p>\n<p>She received\u00a0a\u00a0Nathan Davis Award\u00a0for Outstanding Government Service, was a Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal (Sammies) finalist and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the\u00a0Association of American Physicians. Dr. Volkow\u00a0received the International Prize from the French Institute of Health and Medical Research for her pioneering work in brain imaging and addiction science; was awarded the Carnegie Prize in Mind and Brain Sciences from Carnegie Mellon University; and was inducted into the Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit\/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD) Hall of Fame. She was named one of\u00a0Time\u00a0magazine&#8217;s &#8220;Top 100 People Who Shape Our World&#8221;; one of &#8220;20 People to Watch&#8221; by\u00a0Newsweek\u00a0magazine;\u00a0Washingtonian\u00a0magazine\u2019s &#8220;100 Most Powerful Women&#8221;; &#8220;Innovator of the Year&#8221; by\u00a0U.S. News &amp; World Report; and one of &#8220;34 Leaders Who Are Changing Health Care&#8221; by\u00a0Fortune\u00a0magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Nora Volkow joins High Truths for the 4th time and 4th Season of High Truths to start the year with analysis of 2023 and hopes for 2024. 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