Drug Addiction, Cocaine, Nicotine, Caffeine, Amphetamines, Opioids, THC & Neuroscience | Christian Luscher | 40
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Drug Addiction
There are many different drugs of abuse. They all have different abuse liabilities, or no different tendencies for someone to become addicted or to become dependent on the drug. But at the same time, there is this sort of corpe mechanism at the centre of addictive behavior,. which is the ability of a drug to tap into this mesolimbic dopamine system. So despite differences between drugs and their mechanisms, there isThis sort of common thread running through all of them. And in that context, i'm wondering if you can talk about addiction to things other than drugs. In particular, people have talked a lot about a food addiction or, say, social media addiction. Can you does that truly tap
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