Videos

June 17, 2020  |  Full LIVE segment of NIDA's Science Behind Addiction with Actor Brandon Thomas Lee interviews and NIDA Director Dr. Nora Volkow. Watch as they discuss addiction and recovery during COVID-19.

June 17, 2020  |  Science Behind Addiction LIVE video series: Yale emergency care and addiction medicine physician, researcher, and advocate Dr. Gail D’Onofrio and NIDA Director Dr. Nora Volkow discuss COVID-19 and emergency room

June 17, 2020  |  NIDA's Science Behind Addiction: Yale emergency care and addiction medicine physician, researcher, and advocate Dr. Gail D’Onofrio and NIDA Director Dr. Nora Volkow discuss COVID-19, substance use disorder and emergency

June 17, 2020  |  NIDA's Science Behind Addiction: Yale emergency care and addiction medicine physician, researcher, and advocate Dr. Gail D’Onofrio and NIDA Director Dr. Nora Volkow discuss COVID-19, substance use disorder and emergency

June 17, 2020  |  NIDA's Science Behind Addiction: Yale emergency care and addiction medicine physician, researcher, and advocate Dr. Gail D’Onofrio and NIDA Director Dr. Nora Volkow discuss COVID-19, substance use disorder and emergency

June 10, 2020  |  This video for middle school students describes prescription stimulants, why they are prescribed, and how they can affect the brain and the body when misused. Check out the Mind Matters

May 12, 2020  |  NIDA Director Dr. Nora Volkow discusses the challenges faced by those in recovery or struggling with addiction and NIH research dedicated to understanding SUD-related health risks during the COVID-19 pandemic.

February 25, 2020  |  Treating patients with opioids for chronic pain has its built-in challenges including the risk of development of opioid use disorder and overdose. The importance of a dynamic, patient centered approach

February 25, 2020  |  Given the doubling of opioid related overdose deaths in the US over the past decade the importance of a dynamic, patient centered approach to opioid overdose risk for patients in

January 27, 2020  |  Dr. Kevin Walton, Branch Chief of NIDA’s Clinical Research Grants Branch and an expert on the science behind vaping, talks about the risks it involves. In this video, he explains