Addiction
What causes addiction? Easy, right? Drugs cause addiction. But maybe it is not that simple. This video is adapted from Johann Hari's New York Times best-selling book 'Chasing The Scream: The...
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What causes, say, heroin addiction?This is a really stupid question, right?It’s obvious; we all know it;heroin causes heroin addiction.Here’s how it works:if you use heroin for 20 days, by day 21,your body would physically crave the drug ferociouslybecause there are chemical hooks in the drug.That’s what addiction means.But there’s a catch.Almost everything we think we know about addiction is wrong.If you, for example, break your hip, you’ll be taken to a hospitaland you’ll be given loads of diamorphine for weeks or even months.Diamorphine is heroin.It’s, in fact, much stronger heroin than any addict can get on the streetbecause it’s not contaminated by all the stuff drug dealers dilute it with.There are people near you being givenloads of deluxe heroin...
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What causes, say, heroin addiction?This is a really stupid question, right?It’s obvious; we all know it;heroin causes heroin addiction.Here’s how it works:if you use heroin for 20 days, by day 21,your body would physically crave the drug ferociouslybecause there are chemical hooks in the drug.That’s what addiction means.But there’s a catch.Almost everything we think we know about addiction is wrong.If you, for example, break your hip, you’ll be taken to a hospitaland you’ll be given loads of diamorphine for weeks or even months.Diamorphine is heroin.It’s, in fact, much stronger heroin than any addict can get on the streetbecause it’s not contaminated by all the stuff drug dealers dilute it with.There are people near you being givenloads of deluxe heroin...
