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by Swordfish12345 809 days ago
> dependence

https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.1...

Your brain adapts. It's pretty obvious.

If you give a mouse access to a button that triggers dopamine release, they keep pressing the button until they starve to death.

The brain has evolved a system to maintain homeostasis to prevent this happening.

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> https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2011.1...

This paper does not say what you think it does. Please refer to my other comment discussing your sources.