What Keeps You Addicted?
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7 min readFeb 8, 2022
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There are the four factors that contribute to an addiction. Chemistry, habit, devotion, and idolatry. Any response to addiction that does not take all four into account is going to fail.
Chemistry
First there’s the chemical. That calm feeling you get from Percocet is just too good to give up. The sickness you feel when you are in withdrawal is just too bad to bear. Genes get rewritten…