804 Judith Grisel – Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

Never Enough

In this episode, I chat with Judy Grisel about her experience and work on addiction. It’s a remarkable discussion in which Judy reveals the unfortunate bottom line of all regular drug use: there is no such thing as a free lunch. All drugs act on the brain in a way that diminishes their enjoyable effects and creates unpleasant ones with repeated use. Yet they have their appeal, and Grisel draws on anecdotes both comic and tragic from her own days of using.

Now, after twenty-five years as a neuroscientist, she shares what she and other scientists have learned about addiction, enriched by captivating glimpses of her personal journey. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

Guest Bio

Judith Grisel, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized behavioural neuroscientist and a professor of psychology at Bucknell University with expertise in pharmacology and genetics whose research focuses on determining root causes of drug addiction. A current focus of her laboratory is to understand the role of endogenous opiate neurotransmission in different trajectories of alcohol abuse in men and women. Professor Grisel recently published Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction, a New York Times bestseller.

Pick up a copy of Judith’s book here – Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction