How Addiction Happens

Happy Valentine's Day! Here's what happens to a brain in love
For love's rejects, perhaps the most remarkable finding was activity in the nucleus accumbens — a region that grows active with all addictions, “cocaine, nicotine, alcohol, opiates, amphetamines, gambling addiction, food addiction, sex addiction,” the …
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OW doc reveals tough conditions at one of China's 400 internet addiction centres
“Yes, absolutely. I mean, China is a mirror to the Western world. It happens in the US, it happens in Europe, it happens in Israel. In the US, 65 percent of boys are addicted to porn and video games, so it's not only China. “China took a step [in …
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