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Well, you know, there's this theory that one of the reasons we're seeing such an incredible

kind of epidemic of opioid addiction is because people are lonely.

You know, these drugs do act on our oxytocin receptors in our brains.

They act on the sort of endorphin system that is normally activated by social happiness,

otherness, you know, mother child relationships will activate these oxytocin centers in our brain.

And in the absence of that kind of relationship, people are really looking for another substitute.

That's why sometimes we're seeing so much addiction right now.

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