Chuck

Plenty of time, certainly in our addiction podcast episodes.

But it does play a pretty big role in drug abuse and addiction.

It does reinforce the idea that you want to keep using those drugs because it's making you feel good.

And when we're talking about – you're talking about the woman juggling oranges in that movie and how remarkable that is.

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.

And I would imagine they're people who already gambled.

I don't think it like drove them to start gambling.

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

And it's a pretty clunky way to deal with it, I think.

Yeah, totally.

Yeah.

Yeah, absolutely.

But that is...

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

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

No.

It is part of the recipe in addition, obviously, to your genetics.

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.

And as far as the continuation, dopamine is definitely a part of it.

Yeah, I know what you're talking about.