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#159 Dr. Anna Lembke: Between Pleasure and Pain
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
Addiction Is Its Own Primary Progressive Disease
The universal symptoms of withdrawal from any substance or drugified behavior are anxiety, irritability, insomnia, dysphoria, and craving. It seems like addiction is sort of hard to talk about in some ways because we think that it's like a downstream problem. For example, you lose your job and that becomes the entry point into you seek out alcohol or another drug of choice. Addiction is its own primary progressive disease.
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