Teaching Packet V, For Health Practitioners, Teachers, and Neuroscientists

• 1: Bring the Power of Science to Bear on Drug Abuse and Addiction.
• 2: The brain is the most complex organ in the body.
• 3: How a neuron works.
• 4: The brain is your body’s “Command Central.”

5 through 8

• 5: Control centers in the brain are affected by drug use.
• 6: A positron emission tomography (PET) scanner.
• 7: This is literally the brain on drugs.
• 8: Long-term effects of drug abuse.

9 through 12

• 9: Drugs have long-term consequences.
• 10: The memory of drugs.
• 11: A message to remember.
• 12: Is it worth the risk?

13 & 14

• 13: Visit NIDA’s Web site
• 14: Have you changed your mind?
  

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