TITLE

Heroin Addiction Explained: How Opioids Hijack the Brain

A Visual Journey Through Addiction

DESCRIPTION

This is an excellent and unusual article.  It details the process of addiction and includes “patient voices”.  There are visuals that will engage the student.  Additionally the article briefly discusses the neuroscience of addiction, the life of the addict, and treatment as well as relapse.  It is an excellent resource for use with “health” Psychology as well as psychopathology/abnormal chapters in the textbook.

SOURCE

New York Times, December 18, 2018, by Shreeya Sinha

LINK TO RESOURCE

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/us/addiction-heroin-opioids.html

(Tiny URL)  http://tinyurl.com/y7ranxxu

CLASS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

•What is addiction?

•What is the neuroscience behind addiction?

•Explain the process of becoming addicted by way of the themes of the “patient voices”.

•Why is treatment complicated?  (include recovery and relapse)