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#345 BITESIZE | Why We Are All Addicts | Dr Anna Lembke
Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee
Dopamine and Addiction
Pleasure and pain work like a balance in the brain. The same parts of the brain that process pleasure also process pain. Our brains will work very hard to restore a level balance or what neuroscientists call homeostasis. If we don't wait, if we continue to consume our drug of choice repeatedly over days two weeks, two months, two years, we end up with enough gremlins on the pain side of the balance to fill this whole room. We end up with a pleasure pain balance that has a new, hedonic or joy set point. It's now chronically tilted to the side of pain because those gremlins are camped out there and we are
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