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Why Addiction is a Learning Disorder and Why It Matters
May 8, 2019 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am
FREE
Chris Wivholm Foundation is co-sponsoring the following event.
Medical Discovery Team on Addiction invites you to hear Maia Szalavitz, the author of bestseller “Unbroken Brain”.
May 8, 2019
10:00-11:30 AM
COFFMAN MEMORIAL UNION THEATER
Maia Szalavitz is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction, which is widely recognized as an important advance in thinking about the nature of addiction and how to cope with it, personally and politically. Her talk will be followed by a moderated Q & A with MPR’s Stephanie Curtis.
Books will be available for purchase before and after the lecture thanks to the University of Minnesota Bookstores.
Sponsored by the Medical School’s Medical Discovery Team on Addiction.
Co-sponsors: The Steve Rummler HOPE Network | The Chris Wivholm Foundation | Recovery on Campus (ROC) | LearningLife, College of Continuing & Professional Studies
