From the archives of our sister podcast AMERICAN DIAGNOSIS

In the 1990s, researchers recruited 17,000 adults to answer questions about childhood stressors and trauma and their health. What does this groundbreaking research -- the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study -- show us about how to treat substance abuse? Guests: Phillip Fiuty, Coordinator for Harm Reduction Programs at Santa Fe Mountain Center, and in recovery from substance abuse; Dr. Daniel Sumrok, Director of the Center for Addiction Science at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis; Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health, and TEDMED 2014 speaker; and Dr. Gabor Maté, an expert on addiction, stress and childhood development, co-founder of Compassion for Addiction, a former physician with the Portland Hotel Society and Insite in Vancouver, Canada, Holocaust survivor, and author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts.

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