Addiction

“In terms of the addiction data that'll start coming out over the next year or so, you would lose that benefit. Like you would lose the, essentially the free gift of protecting yourself from being addicted to drugs, alcohol, or gambling. And that comes from the…”

“GLP-I ones, they're just the tip of the iceberg. There are more and more sophisticated ways for us to be able to address not just appetite, but addiction, addictive behavior drops at GLP-I ones. So new, the newer drugs are going to be even more effective at th…”

“TikTok and Instagram now are absolutely unequivocally optimized for addiction. Like they will show you the next best thing to keep the dopamine level in your brain at the same level.”

“If we can't contain crime, we're never getting to, you know, recidivism. We're never getting to mental health. We're never getting to addiction. We got to, you know, get ahead of the curve on the most urgent thing, which is, you know, people are getting robbed…”

“And so, in my opinion, if you're trying to change a habit, whether it's addiction, whether trying to start a business, I think that you should tell people.”

“And I realized that the thing that you'll, you'll realize when you're going to be in trouble from opiates is when it actually gives you energy. So it actually gave me a bit more energy to in, in drive to want to do more things like lift more weights and work o…”

“The substance or the behavior is actually the solution to the problem. The problem resides within the individual.”

“Now that's about three to five percent of the population is pathologically addicted, but we toss out this word addiction all the time.”

“The other thing is that that's very important here is that once people start to become addicted, what's salient is not so much the release of dopamine when they're getting high or experiencing pleasure, but it's actually the decrease in dopamine in between or …”

“Importantly quantity and frequency are not in those criteria.”

“Also, we don't really have good data for how much is too much, except for alcohol, where we have pretty good data for that.”

“Tolerance alone isn't sufficient to make the diagnosis of addiction. It must be associated with these compulsive out of control behaviors in the face of ongoing consequences.”

“That even if you could take away the depression or the trauma or give somebody, you know, the perfect life and everything they wanted, once they've developed the disease of addiction, they have addiction, and if you don't intervene for that problem, it's typic…”

“One important early warning sign is something called the double life or the lying habit. This is where we start to lie about what we're consuming, how much and how often.”

“I think the most vulnerable, vulnerable people in the planet are actually poor people living in rich nations, as opposed to poor people living in poor nations, because poor people living in rich nations have all of the stress and trauma of unemployment, povert…”

“You can build all the housing and get everybody off the street housed, but if you're struggling with addiction or mental illness, you're just housed with drug addiction and mental illness.”

“One way to think about addiction is it's a progressive narrowing of what gives you pleasure. So it's a you are narrowing the things in your life that, that will give you this rush of pleasure.”

“And I always have to believe that the individual needs to take care of themselves. Otherwise you're not going to have business to begin with if you fall prey to this addiction and you give in.”

“I personally don't believe there's a cure for addiction. I believe that we're always in the process of recovery. We can always get better.”

“Be honest. Tell them what you see. You don't sugarcoat it.”

“Well, first and foremost, addiction is a brain disease. That has behavioral consequences and physical consequences and social consequences. But the bottom line is it's all up here in the brain and that's where it begins.”

“Things that are familiar to you actually are less likely to be addictive. You develop a tolerance really fast.”

“An addiction is a compulsive dependency on a behavior or substance, and it's always bad, right? So addictions by definition hurt the user”

“The truth is that eating disorders, like any other kind of compulsion, are rooted in fear and anxiety, and every single teenage person goes through those phases. We express it differently, but in the brain, the incentive reward system resembles many other type…”