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| Topic | Is addiction a disease, and should it be treated the same as cancer, etc |
| Sahuagin 10/30/17 12:20:03 PM #9: | Far-Queue posted... My cousin says that because addicts choose to do drugs, they should simply choose to stop. Easy peasy. actually, it's a lot more complicated than that. I'm not a neurologist or anything, but from what I've learned it has (at least in part) to do with dopamine and what dopamine does. this is actually a little bit mind-blowing to me. dopamine *reinforces the mental pathways that led to its release*. it's almost like a weird form of time-travel; it's an event that manages to increase its own chances of ocurring by lending strength to the chain of events that led to its cause. with drug addiction, you have poor decision-making leading up to the taking of the drug, immediately followed by an unnaturally high volume of neurotransmitters being released, including dopamine, which reinforces everything in your mind that led up to that moment. whatever it was about you that got you to that moment has now been magnified, increasing the chance that it happens again, and increasing the chance that it will be reinforced further. it's a weird kind of self-reinforcing trap. --- The truth basks in scrutiny. http://i.imgur.com/GMouTGs.jpg http://projecteuler.net/profile/Sahuagin.png ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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