Dr. Nora Volkow: How Drug Addiction Hijacks the Brain
Dr. Nora Volkow: How Drug Addiction Hijacks the Brain – Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, explains addiction pharmacologically and looks at how drugs of abuse take control of the r…
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Throughout our civilization drug use/abuse? is regarded as being a weakness and a failure in our societies — but it’s driving force is the continuation of our kind in earth. Very interesting correlation that may why humans become addicted.
Interesting take on pleasure and how it makes us behave a certain? way.
YOU MUST LEARN ABOUT FALSE-REWARD-BRAIN-RESPONSE. An addict/alcoholic can be clean and sober for years and experience this troubling lure to relapse.? But an educated addict/alcoholic has a better chance at resisting relapse than an uneducated addict/alcoholic.
KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING IN YOUR BRAIN; KNOW HOW TO COMBAT IT.
There’s a special area of the brain called “the pleasure center”.
This “pleasure center” controls our addictive want to have anything
which? brings pleasure to our brain.
This is why addictions are so dangerous to ourselves because
this center over-rides any effort to overcome these addictions.
The brain will produce more severe pain to keep us addictive.
amen?
Your exactly right,people do indeed get addicted to many things-as you pointed out-there are many people who can’t get enough sex or they can’t stop shoplifting,they can’t stop playing computer games,etc.-if your serious go to? youtube-Dr. Gabor Mate-addiction,behavior and development! dcp