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Selects: How Dopamine Works

If they've given you Parkinson's drugs and they just flood your brain with dopamine, they found that 10 percent of the people that have had that treatment turn into gambling addicts.

Stuff You Should Know
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And I would imagine they're people who already gambled.

Stuff You Should Know
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I don't think it like drove them to start gambling.

Stuff You Should Know
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But that just goes to show you the power of like what a flood of dopamine will do to your brain.

Stuff You Should Know
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And it's a pretty clunky way to deal with it, I think.

Stuff You Should Know
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Yeah, totally.

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Yeah, absolutely.

Stuff You Should Know
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But that is...

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To be clear, just part of the recipe of what leads to addiction.

Stuff You Should Know
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Maybe there are people out there saying that, but I don't know if anyone really is saying it's all because of dopamine.

Stuff You Should Know
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It is part of the recipe in addition, obviously, to your genetics.

Stuff You Should Know
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just the fact that drugs are out there and available and their environmental pressures and influences, all kinds of reasons that people start to take drugs or continue to take drugs.

Stuff You Should Know
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And as far as the continuation, dopamine is definitely a part of it.

Stuff You Should Know
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Yeah, I know what you're talking about.

Stuff You Should Know
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But they have other negative effects on the body.

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The other bad thing, obviously, if you're going to do the amount of drugs it takes to shut down.