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Dr. Anna Lembke: Understanding & Treating Addiction

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The Hallmark of Any Addict?

Rich says there's a tilting back of the scale where pleasure is reduced by way of increasing pain rit. The hall mark of any addictive substance or behaviour is that it releases a lot of dopemine in our brains reward pathway. Rich: If i don't wait, and here is really the key, if i keep indulging again and again and again, ultimately i have so much on the pain side right that i've essentially reset my brain to what we call like an anhedonic, or lacking in joy type of state. That then everything sort of pales in comparison to this one drug that i want to keep doing.

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