Periodic Round Table S1E4: Doping Up On Dopamine

Everyone is familiar with addiction, but why do we get addicted to things? Why can we experience addiction with not only substances such as drugs, alcohol, and caffeine, but activities such as video games or shopping? We go into the psychology and chemical mechanisms of addiction, the pharmacological criteria for addiction, brain chemistry, and if it’s possible to be addicted to being naked in a river.

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