Addiction: Why Do Some People Succumb to it?
Why does pleasure and desire lead to addiction in some people but not others? Mike Williams talks to scientists and former addicts.
What happens when the biochemistry of the brain鈥檚 pleasure and reward system goes wrong? How can something that starts off being pleasurable end up making us feel so low? Mike Williams talks to scientists and former addicts to search for some answers to the power of addiction.
(Photo: Collection of different hard drugs heroin, pills, tobacco and alcohol. Credit: Shutterstock)
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Alcohol Addiction
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Fri 19 Feb 2016 20:32GMT蜜芽传媒 World Service Online, Americas and the Caribbean, UK DAB/Freeview & Europe and the Middle East only- Fri 19 Feb 2016 21:32GMT蜜芽传媒 World Service Australasia, East Asia, West and Central Africa & South Asia only
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- Thu 21 Jul 2016 11:04GMT蜜芽传媒 Radio 4
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