Originally Posted by
TheOnlyDryPaddy 
You seem awfully certain of something that you have done nothing but deride. Perhaps if you could actually explain why neuroimaging doesn't support the conclusions of addiction medicine, it would be more convincing.
It is
normal to become addicted, a natural response. The body is doing what it is supposed to be doing in order to maintain
homeoestasis. The phenomenon has been replicated across cultures, and even across species. It is also normal to become un-addicted. Hundreds of millions of people quit smoking cigarettes when they finally realized it wasn't worth it, for example.
Originally Posted by
TheOnlyDryPaddy But the fact that you brain lights in response to a stimulus doesn't imply a pathology.
Precisely. The fact that the brain lights up with desire when someone sees a beer doesn't imply a pathology.
Originally Posted by
TheOnlyDryPaddy My tongue-in-cheek example was not the best choice, but neuroimaging has been used to study basic brain functions such as language production and language comprehension.
Do you think those studies are junk science too?
No.