# Alan Leshner Discusses New Science of Addiction and What It Means to Society

Advances in science in recent decades have revolutionized the understanding of the nature of drug abuse and addiction and what society needs to do about them. According to Alan Leshner, chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), there is now a clear understanding that drug abuse and addiction are bio-behavioral phenomena with important biological, behavioral and social-context components. Those components must be recognized in developing prevention, treatment and social-policy responses to the problems.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2008
- By: Library Of Congress. Science, Technology, And Business Division
- Genres: Science
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687939/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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