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a hijacked love story where your brain keeps choosing the thing that's killing it
means a compulsive, hard-to-control dependence on a substance or behavior, where you keep doing it despite knowing the harm
from From Latin 'addictio,' a legal term meaning a formal handing-over or assignment — when a Roman magistrate 'addicted' a debtor to a creditor, he literally bound the person over as a slave. The verb 'addicere' breaks into 'ad-' (to) and 'dicere' (to say, to declare), so an addiction was originally something pronounced upon you, a sentence spoken aloud. The word kept that flavor of devotion-turned-bondage as it passed into English: at first you could be 'addicted' to anything you gave yourself over to, good or bad, before it narrowed to the cravings that own us.
- dopamine trick
- It rewards seeking more than getting
- rat park
- Lonely rats overdosed; happy rats often didn't
- genetic share
- Heritability runs roughly 40 to 60 percent
- opposite of
- Connection, not sobriety, per Johann Hari
- brain rewires
- It physically reshapes reward and willpower circuits
whitney houston — singer who died in 2012 from cocaine and prescription drug addiction
philip seymour hoffman — actor who died in 2014 from heroin overdose after decades of addiction
betty ford — former first lady who publicly acknowledged her addiction to painkillers and alcohol in the 1980s