People have said that addiction is a disruption of the brain's normal working processes - your neurochemistry gets f***ed up basically. Your behaviour-control centres become disregulated; the feedback loops that keep everything in check in normality just become deranged by all the wrong stuff activating the neuroreceptors. Well, that's what ppl say the CT scans show!! I've posted a link to an HBO documentary somewhere on this forum - it's broken down into 10min sections but all of it is informative (IMO) - I'll try to find it
I'm not sure how that addresses how addicts justify their problem tho? I can see how before the addiction someone might want to turn to drugs or alcohol to forget traumatic events because they've heard or experienced that it worked (on the short term?) but it's insiduous isn't it. By the time it all gets to work rearranging the furniture in your brain you're in tricky territory :/
Thoughts?
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