addiction

“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…”

“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…”

“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.”

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

“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…”

“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.”

“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 …”

“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.”