EPISODE · Nov 15, 2020 · 44 MIN

#28: Addiction

from The Dr. Junkie Show · host Benjamin Boyce

What is addiction? What is dependency? What is the difference? And what does dopamine have to do with all of this?It turns out that most of what we think we know about addiction is wrong. In this episode I unpack my thoughts (and the current science) on addiction, tolerance, dopamine, sensitization (habituation), and the Learning Disorder model of addiction, which is rapidly replacing the old disease model.Support the show

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