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Rethinking Addiction with Thomas Horvath

Minds and Mics

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Is There a Dilemma in Abstinence?

We all feel a little bit of addictive or kind of compulsive pull towards certain activities that are especially pleasurable. And in particular, those ones where we're a little bit more wired to have a pleasure response for probably fir survival reasons. But doesn't there seems to be, just witht with a certain group of people, kind of a tipping point where it goes from something that is maybe a little bit compulsive and starts wreaking havoc on your life? Is there at all, any kind of qualitative difference there, or is it just kind of, most people don't make it that far up the gradual slope. The farther up that slope you go, the fewer people are there?

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