London is a professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at UCLA who studies brain scans of normal brains in contrast with those of meth users. She speaks with David about her research, which illustrates that drugs create biological changes in users’ brains that alter their decision-making abilities and make them depressed, argumentative, and anxious.
Dr. Edythe London Quotes in Beautiful Boy
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Chapter 11
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It led her to conclude that meth addicts may be unable, not unwilling, to participate in many common treatments, at least in the early stages of withdrawal. Rather than a moral failure or a lack of willpower, dropping out and relapsing may be a result of a damaged brain.
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Dr. Edythe London Quotes in Beautiful Boy
The Beautiful Boy quotes below are all either spoken by Dr. Edythe London or refer to Dr. Edythe London. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 11
Quotes
It led her to conclude that meth addicts may be unable, not unwilling, to participate in many common treatments, at least in the early stages of withdrawal. Rather than a moral failure or a lack of willpower, dropping out and relapsing may be a result of a damaged brain.
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