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Experts On: Addiction and Enlightenment

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The Neurochemistry of Addiction

The slide into addiction is when our pleasure pain balance gets weighted to the side of pain such that we then have compulsive urges to repeat the behavior. We get caught up in that vicious cycle of not being able to put it away because our physiology has adapted to its constant presence. For people who have no personal or family exposure or experience to addiction, I often suggest the experiment of just putting your smartphone away for 24 hours.

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