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282: The Science of Happiness and How to Extract More Joy Out of Every Day | Arthur Brooks, PhD

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The Role of Knowledge in Addiction

Once you've been addicted to something, you have a propensity toward that addiction probably for the rest of your life. If you're addicted to benzodiazepines, do not take a GABA drug, Z drugs for sleep because they're too close together. One substance to another substance will be unto you. And so doctors have to be really careful when they prescribe a substance that can be addictive.

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