34: Rat Addicts
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🗓️ 9 December 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
This week we tackle the science behind addiction. Is it a disease or does it only exist because drugs are just chemically irresistible?
References and Further Reading
- https://youtu.be/d-0KfwFCMRM
- https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/substance-use-disorder/what-does-rat-park-teach-us-about-addiction
- https://sencanada.ca/content/sen/committee/371/ille/presentation/alexender-e.htm
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2890392/
- https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/substance-use-disorder/what-does-rat-park-teach-us-about-addiction
- https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/healthy-body/addiction-what-is-it/
- https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/tobacco-nicotine-e-cigarettes/nicotine-addictive
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| 0:00.0 | So we start this week. Not with an email. Oh. No, but with a congratulations. |
| 0:05.0 | Congratulations. Congratulations, Luke. Let's give a little round of applause. |
| 0:09.0 | On his 10th birthday. He was engaged. |
| 0:12.0 | Luke is engaged. He's an old man now. He's grown. |
| 0:15.0 | I am an adult. Making commitments. How much older do you feel? |
| 0:20.0 | Honestly, I feel like it was like a proper change. It was like, oh my gosh, I am now an adult, I guess. This is happening. Like I was always waiting when I turned 18, when I went to university, when I moved out, when I everything. I was like, when am I going to be an adult? This is pretty much it. This is a big thing. I think I'm an adult now. Yeah. |
| 0:38.3 | Good. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm glad. |
| 0:40.3 | Thanks. Yeah, pretty cool. Okay, would you like to hear an email now? Sure. I wouldn't usually read one out, but I've got a really nice one. This one is... Oh shit, would you not usually read one out? I would read one out. |
| 0:51.3 | I wouldn't usually read one out after one of my friends gotten engaged. |
| 0:55.3 | Okay. |
| 0:56.3 | But this one was taking good time. |
| 0:57.3 | Cory was at the ad. I would usually read one out. I would usually read one out after one of my friends got engaged. |
| 0:55.0 | Okay, okay. |
| 0:56.0 | But this one was too good to pass. |
| 0:57.0 | Corey was at the engagement and immediately after she said I will, he read an email out. |
| 1:04.0 | I did. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, it was an email from her actually. |
| 1:07.0 | It said no. |
| 1:09.0 | If Luke asked me to marry him, I'll say yes, even though I mean no. |
| 1:14.6 | Oh. |
| 1:15.6 | Yeah. |
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