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In this podcast about how neuroscience is offering new approaches to treatments for drug addiction, science journalist Ryan O'Hare speaks to Harry Shapiro of Drugscope,  the UK organisation supporting professionals working in the field of drug misuse. Dr Amy Milton, a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge Barry Everitt, Professor of behavioural neuroscience at the University of Cambridge. Dr Sunjeev Kamboj, a lecturer in clinical psychology at University College London Andy [not his real name], a recovering addict [Andy] - “Trying to justify to yourself that you could take it possibly take it very sporadically, but yeah, there’s a lot of mental trickery going on,” [Sunjeev Kamboj] - “There isn’t really, at the moment, any long-term treatment that you receive and then stop taking and you’re cured,” [Harry Shapiro] “When someone has collapsed all of their problems into one, to the exclusion and detriment of everything else in their lives, that’s addictio