Dr. Hal Urschel

Overcoming Addiction

Alcohol and drug abuse is and has been a growing epidemic in our country. We see celebrities publicly struggle with addictions everyday in the media, but approximately 27 million people in America are struggling with an addiction to drugs or alcohol. For around 100 years, medical science has racked its collective brains trying to figure out just what causes addiction. Dr. Friedman welcomes some top experts to discuss causes and treatment options for addiction, as well as the long term health dangers.

Dr. Hal Urschel, author of Healing the Addicted Brain believes that addiction is not a personal or moral weakness but a chronic medical disease that attacks the brain. A board certified physician in both addiction and general psychiatry and CEO/founder of the Urschel Recovery Science Institute, Dr. Urschel shares with us what happens inside the brain of an addict, why talking therapy alone will never be the answer, and how medications can help the brain repair itself, pushing the treatment success rate up as high as 90%! Dr. Urschel is Dr. Phil Mcgraw’s go-to “addiction expert” and has appeared numerous times on Dr. Phil, the Today Show, MSNBC, Fox News, Extra, and CNN.

Dr. David Friedman

3 / 10 / 2011