Why Our Brains Are Prone to Addiction -- A Neuroscientist Explains

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3. Well it certainly describes his experience

but I sincerely doubt we can scale it up to the rest of the human race.

Lewis would have done better to study those of us who tried all that shit and didn't get addicted, who walked away from it without a struggle, something he was incapable of.

I shoved morphine into IVs for years. Most people wanted that stuff out of their heads within three days, even if they were still in significant pain.

Until and unless they get interested in the boring, normal brain, capable of dependence but not addiction, they won't begin to understand the phenomenon.