The Teenage Brain Is Primed For Addiction

We tend to think of addiction as an adult problem, but drug abuse starts, overwhelmingly, in adolescence. Psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine talks about how a teenager's brain is primed to soak up new experiences—the good and the bad—in this clip from "Craving Brain: The Neuroscience of Uncontrollable Urges," a program at the 2014 World Science Festival.