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117 - Anna Lembke: Dopamine, Drug Addiction, and Recovery

Robinson's Podcast

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The Neuroadaptation of the Pain Gremlins

When you don't have your drug of choice, that's when you feel at your worst because there's nothing to counterbalance the pain gremlin. You're gonna experience the universal symptoms of withdrawal from any addictive substance or behavior during anxiety, irritability, insomnia, depression, and craving. And so when people get into recovery, what I explained to them is now you're gonna be taking that weight off the pleasure side. With those gremlins that you've been killing on the pain side, they're gonna slam you down to the side of pain.

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