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February 12, 2022

Attitudes of Aging & the Battle Against Drug Abuse

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Attitudes of Aging

Recent research supports the concept of a brain body connection. Negative thinking about getting older can have a measurable impact on your health, and how you respond to stress. Dakota Witzel, doctoral candidate in Oregon State University’s College of Public Health and Human Sciences, will outline about ways to reduce stress about aging.

The Battle Against Drug Abuse

Then, it\'s estimated that 20 million Americans with substance abuse problems are going without treatment, in a crisis that claimed more than 100,000 American lives last year. Carl Erik Fisher, MD, addiction physician, bioethicist, and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry in the Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry at Columbia University, and author of \"The Urge: Our History of Addiction,” says it often doesn\'t help to refer to addiction as a disease.

Letting Go of Productivity Guilt

And, at the end of the day, is your to-do list mostly not done? We\'ll talk with Madeleine Dore, author of \"I Didn\'t Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt,\" who explained how to not feel guilty or disappointed.

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