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Carl Erik Fisher – The History of Addiction

And Then It Hit Me with Cory Allen

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Dopomin, the Star of the Nervo Scientific Story in the Eighties and Nineties

Dopomine was held up as the reason why drugs are especially addictive. Crack is just a more potent form of cocaine, it's not a different molecule. It doesn't do anything differently. And any effects that they have in the sort of pleasure centers, or the the centers of the brain that rely on incentive sensiiation,. They do it in a more indirect and sortof down stream way that inter intersects with human factors. We carry a lot of biases within us that it''s hard to become fully aware of. So i'm really skeptical when people say dopmean a. Because some imes don't we mean a sort of invoked as a a sheep's clothing of

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