Dr. Anna Lembke: Between Pleasure and Pain

people can use, as I said, because they want to have fun. People can use because they're trying to self-medicate a psychological problem. People can use because they're trying to escape a traumatic situation or they've had a negative experience and they're trying to get away from that. All of those are reasons uh that people use substances. Once people begin to use addictive substances in large quantities on a on a regular basis, it changes their brain. And now they have a secondary problem, right? So they might have started using for one problem, but they eventually develop another problem, and that problem is the disease of addiction. Welcome to the Knowledge Project.

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