The Chemistry of Addiction

Hank describes how our brains respond biochemically to various addictive substances and behaviors and where those responses have come from, evolutionarily sp…
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31 thoughts on “The Chemistry of Addiction

  1. Loose the glasses dude anyone can see they are fakes, and they don’t make
    you sound or look smarter, just bloody ridiculous!

  2. I’m curious about the science of weird cravings… Like pregnant women’s
    cravings, or in my case every day cravings that make no sense and are
    random as all hell. (For example this morning I woke up craving hashbrowns
    with nutella – and this is something I’ve had for years so no I’m not
    pregnant)

  3. This makes me think… If dopamine makes you remember things better, and it
    is released through happiness, why don’t schools focus a bit more on making
    kids happy instead of just shoving the information at you?

  4. last dispute all the laughter and seemingly fun aspect of cannbis use it
    does t seem to have the same level of addictive properties how do
    endocanboinds differ

  5. I hope your not addicted to hydrogen dioxide, it doesn’t exist that’s HO2
    Dihydrogen monoxide however is pretty great though H2O

  6. Question:
    (You may have answered this but…) Do drugs themselves change neurons and
    how they function or does the brain change its neurons in response to the
    effects of drugs?
    Thanks,
    Noah, Nerdfighter since 2008

  7. This old man his hair is nowhere near close to jb’s and now he looks like a
    fag.I’m not saying I like jb but this man no boy needs to move on with his
    life plus he looks like a girl now.

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