This week on Wellbeing we begin a 7-part series on drug addiction. Today we are talking with Professor Paul Dietze from the Burnet Institute. With more than two decades in this field and with ground breaking research findings, Professor Dietze is one of Australia's leading alcohol and other drug epidemiologists. In this episode, Professor Dietze talks about the history of drug use, drugs being used in medicine, their effect on the brain, how people are affected differently by them and how they change a person’s behaviour. Tune in next week when Professor Dietze goes even deeper into what drugs are and what it means to be addicted to them.

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