Close To Home hosted by journalist Bill Moyers. This 60 minute episode features the real experts, the recovering addicts themselves, who reveal lives distorted by drugs and alcohol, and transformed by recovery. Their personal stories give us a look into the common struggles that addicts share during addiction and throughout their journey of recovery.
Addiction is characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use despite negative consequences.
Leading neuroscientists are beginning to answer that question by using new technologies for mapping desire in the brain. Building on decades of research that revealed molecular and cellular changes in the addicted brains of animals, these new imaging technologies allow us to see precisely where in the human brain addictive behavior resides. These powerful imagining techniques open up vast new possibilities for treatment and indicate new routes for more effective prevention. By showing how drug addiction is truly a physiological disease rather than a moral failing in this 60 minute segment, this rapidly advancing area of science lays the groundwork for a transformed social attitude towards addicts and a revised public policy on drugs and alcohol. The episode also examines the ways in which community is vital to recovery, shows why relapse is not equal to failure, and that the process of change, for many, is a life-long endeavor.