Neuroscience of Drug Addiction: Implications for Public Health

1. 1) Understand early childhood risk factor for drug abuse as an examples of developmental trajectories into addiction.
2. 2) Appreciate how an understanding of impairments in reward, memory and executive control circuits are apparent in addiction and can be addressed through combined public health/public safety approaches in criminal justice settings.
3. 3) Understand the impact of marijuana on the developing adolescent brain.