DRUGS, DESIRE & DISEASE: How neuroscience is changing our understanding of addiction
Join a world-leading panel of experts to debate the potential impact on society of treating addiction as a brain disease:
- Can people with an addiction control their drug use and make free decisions?
- How does the brain disease approach impact the ability to overcome addiction?
- Should people with drug addiction be coerced into treatment?
- Can neuroscience reduce the stigma and discrimination around addiction?
- Can we become addicted to other behaviours such as gambling, food, sex and the Internet?
The panel will be moderated by Dr Steve Ellen, and will feature:
Professor Marc Lewis (leading neuroscientist, former drug addict and author), Professor Dan Lubman(Director of Turning Point), Associate Professor Helen Keane (Sociologist and author) and Gavin Crosisca (former Collingwood AFL football player and former drug addict).
6-7pm Friday 21 October 2016. Cash bar from 5pm
Venue: National Gallery of Victoria, Clemenger Auditorium.
This is a FREE public event, but registrations are essential. Register here.
A proud initiative of the David Winston Turner Endowment Fund, Monash Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences, Monash University and in partnership with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function.
