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Rethinking Addiction with Thomas Horvath

Minds and Mics

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The Foundation of Addiction

The foundation of addictive avior is pleasure. If something is pleasurable, it is potentially addictive. I want people to think along a con num. There are different levels of intensity for different kinds of pleasurable behaviors. And those levels also change person to person. About 25 % of the population really don't enjoy drinking very much so they'll never pursue it enough to develop problems. But if you do like something, there is the potential that you get engaged in it so much that you now e getting your life out of balance.

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