A study, which monitored the brain activity of 122 men and women provides clear evidence that porn does not look like other addictions.
Author: Jessica Washington
While most relapses occur in the early days, some people put together years before finding AA’s revolving door. What makes someone go out after finding solid sobriety?
“Some biologists think that the reason we humans like adult beverages is because our primate ancestors were partial to super ripe fruits, which are high in calories and often in ethanol. “
“For an alcoholic, life is a temptation to drink, but the summer setting may bring on more of a temptation than winter, simply because there are more outdoor parties in the heat, begging for a cool drink.”
“To explain the devastating changes in behavior of a person who is addicted, such that even the most severe threat of punishment is insufficient to keep them from taking drugs — where they are willing to give up everything they care for in order to take a drug — it is not enough to say that addiction is a chronic brain disease.”
For two and a half years, Horace Bush lived in a “three-quarter” house, an unregulated type of housing that dooms tenants to a cycle of treatment and relapse.
The report uses data from sources including the World Health Organization and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
Addiction is a display of the brain’s astounding ability to change — a feature called plasticity — and it showcases what we know and don’t yet know about how brains adapt to all that we throw at them.
