COVID-19 has disrupted addiction treatment: a neuroscientist answers our questions

May 29, 2020

Judith Grisel, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Bucknell University, USA, speaking at the "The Science of Addiction" session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2020 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 22 January. Congress Centre

Prof. Judith Grisel recovered from a decade of drug addiction before becoming a world-leading expert in the neuroscience of addiction. Image: World Economic Forum / Christian Clavadetscher

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