Russell Dixon was an all-American boy well on his way to realizing his childhood dream of becoming a major league baseball player for his hometown team, the Houston Astros, but the pressure of being a professional athlete led to an addiction that nearly cost him his life. Also, one of the world's leading experts on the neuroscience of addiction, Stanford University's Dr. Anna Lembke, breaks down exactly what's happening inside the brains of 40 million Americans dealing with some form of unhealthy compulsion.

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