Addictions can ruin lives but why do they occur in the first place and what can we do to acknowledge them better?

In this episode Iook at why they can be so hard to conquer and touch on different aspects of addiction.

Links:

How the addicted brain works:

https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/how-an-addicted-brain-works

Sugar - why most of us could easily have a sweet tooth: https://theconversation.com/a-taste-for-sweet-an-anthropologist-explains-the-evolutionary-origins-of-why-youre-programmed-to-love-sugar-173197

Addiction and childhood: https://www.jkacap.org/journal/view.html?doi=10.5765/jkacap.2017.28.1.4#

Heroin detox in Thailand: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-13674101

Dr Gabor Maté on trauma: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/apr/12/the-trauma-doctor-gabor-mate-on-happiness-hope-and-how-to-heal-our-deepest-wounds

Gambling addiction: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/addiction-support/gambling-addiction/

A personal story: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/30/studied-neuroscience-understand-addictions-not-cure

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