Dr. Kent Berridge
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 4 Aug
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My very first dopamine study was really a collaboration with Roy Wise.
And I intended to just give him one more little bit of evidence for dopamine pleasure.
And it totally failed in our hands.
We were asking in a different kind of way.
People who have had the experience of addiction or talk a lot with people with addiction are best qualified to say.
But my impression is that a lot of people do take drugs for the pleasure.
A lot of other people do take drugs to relieve anxiety and distress and other various forms of distress that are going on in life.
Some people start taking drugs for these reasons, but they then become sensitized.
And these people, even if you took away the pleasure, even if you took away the withdrawal and distress, these people could still have compulsive wanting to take the drugs again and again.
Right.
So that's the cycle of relieving distress.
And that could happen even without sensitized wanting or could accompany sensitized wanting.
But the difference is going to be if they're sensitized wanting, then even if you could sort of relieve their distress, you know, put them in a five star luxury hotel and give them everything they want and take away the problems in their life.
Well, right.
If they're sensitized, they can go through all of this and you could even take away the drugs for this month or two, but they're still going to relapse when they come out.
These are the sensitized individuals who's wanting, in a sense becomes irrational because it's no longer linked to distress relief.
It's no longer linked to pleasure.
It may confuse even the person who's doing it.
They may not have a reason, but this system doesn't need reasons.
It operates by psychological rules, not by cognitive rational reasons.
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