Karl Theodor<p>{Is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DrugAddiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DrugAddiction</span></a> a Disease?<br>No, but we often treated as a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>disease</span></a>. So what’s the disease? The changes in our <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neurobiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neurobiology</span></a> that cry out for the disease.</p><p>What?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Addiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Addiction</span></a> is not the disease; what it really is something we use to calm the disease; a little help from our chemical friends. </p><p>Enter <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/painkillers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>painkillers</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/alcohol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alcohol</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sweets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sweets</span></a> and on and on.</p><p>They step in to help the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/brain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brain</span></a> suppress the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pain</span></a>, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/need" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>need</span></a> and the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/agony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>agony</span></a>.} <a href="https://cigognenews.blogspot.com/search?q=addiction" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cigognenews.blogspot.com/searc</span><span class="invisible">h?q=addiction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Coldplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coldplay</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nopain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nopain</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cannabis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cannabis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hanfgeschichten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hanfgeschichten</span></a></p>