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Carl Erik Fisher – The History of Addiction

And Then It Hit Me with Cory Allen

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The Brain Is So Sneaky

The brain is so sneaky. That's something about all this that, you know, i think isn't underscored enough. People who use drugs for deeply addictive reasons because they're in pain or some kind of discomfort have to work with those parts of themselves if we're going to get better. We contain multitudes. There's not a permanent and unchanging self. I don't think hat it's reasonable to think of one unitary self that's always in charge all the time. The whole apple thing was a ruse by the brain to get you to get down there and jus give giveit it the chemical it wanted, you know. Yees, very wise words, very

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