"Video: SG's Addiction Report 'Breaks New Ground'"
In a landmark report, the U.S. Surgeon General said substance addiction is not a character flaw or moral failing, but rather a disease that changes the brain's circuitry in the brain. In a video, Richard N. Rosenthal, MD, medical director of addiction psychiatry for the Mount Sinai Behavioral Health System, discusses the significance of the report. Rosenthal notes that it follows in the footsteps of the famous 1964 Surgeon General's statement on cigarette smoking, now broadened to encompass the full range of addictive substances including opioids, alcohol, and stimulants as well as tobacco. “It really takes head on the cultural stigmatization of addiction, which has been a great problem in being able to address it at a society level,” Dr. Rosenthal says. Learn more.
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