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Life After Rock Bottom: Arielle Lorre on Addiction & Plastic Surgery

Going Mental with Eileen Kelly

CHAPTER

The Genetics of Addiction

I think that my brain chemistry was such that I needed something where I was almost self-medicating with, you know, drugs and alcohol. And then it becomes a cycle. It's like one, I mean, they do brain scans all the time. Yeah. If people who are heavily addicted to drugs, it's like your brain chemistry changes when you're on them and you're craving it or your body needs it. But I don't have anybody in my family with anything. So I've just kind of, at least in the eight and a half years that I've been sober and thought about this, I've always just kind of felt like it was just kind of a perfect

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