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Podcast: From Sobriety To Recovery: An Addiction Recovery Podcast
Episode: Is addiction a disease? (and a brief American history of substance use)
Description: Ep #230 - There are so many different ways we can frame addiction. Numerous models and labels society wants to place upon addan attempt to take a very complex issue and whittle it down to a slogan or bumper stict's really discuss addiction, emphasizing it as a brain disease, not merely a lack of willpower. I'll shed light on the brain's pleasure circuits and the role of dopamine, elucidating how substance use addictions like alcohol, cocaine, and opioids, to behavioral addictions like gambling, shopping, and eating how can hijack the brain's reward system, a feedback pathway utilized to ensure survival f...