Dr. Kent Berridge
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first heard Aug 2026
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And drugs are good sensitizing agents if we're vulnerable to sensitizing.
And it turns out that it's all kinds, well, not all, but many, many kinds of drugs.
Psychostimulants like cocaine, amphetamine, opioids like heroin, alcohol, nicotine, all of these sensitize.
Well, I think that's reasonable for many people that, you know, drugs and sex together are going to become sort of a constellation.
And the cues for both are going to feed in cooperatively and trigger the same kind of very, very intense wanting.
And there was a study a number of years ago of users who were showing hypersexuality and kind of developing compulsive sexual pursuit, possibly induced by their.
Well, you know, once it's in the scientific literature, then we can cite it, you know, otherwise it's anecdotes.
Well, sure.
More recently, you know, a lot of, a lot, but well, a fair number of Parkinson's patients who are being prescribed the new medications, the new dopamine direct agonist medications are developing behavioral compulsions.
And in men, sexual compulsive pursuit of pornography and sex is very, very common.
A little less common in women, but it can happen in both.
So this is inducing sort of sex compulsions in people who were not very compulsive personalities to begin with, who didn't have the sex compulsions or drug compulsions.
Yet it's dopamine stimulation that's doing it.
So, yes, these things go together.
Thank you.
Well, the biggest misunderstanding is the belief that dopamine is pleasure.
It's a belief that I had once I held fervently.
Oh, yeah.
Well, it's a meme.
It started, you know, in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
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