Posts Tagged ‘delay-discounting’

Sub­stance abuse can have dra­mat­ic con­se­quences on the brain and behav­ior. The tra­di­tion­al way of pre­vent­ing drug abuse is often edu­ca­tion. Aware­ness pro­grams do work with peo­ple who can pic­ture long-term reper­cus­sions of abus­ing drugs. Oth­er peo­ple, most often those vul­ner­a­ble to addic­tions, do not ben­e­fit from such pro­grams. It seems that they tend to…