...there will never be enough drug, because the brain's capacity to learn and adapt is basically infinite.

I'd sought wellness and became sick; fun, but lived in a constant state of anxious dread; freedom, and was enslaved.

As always with addictive drugs, tolerance spoils the fun...

A victim of virtually any disease usually elicits pity, addicts mostly evoke revulsion. What is it about the irrational behavior of an addict that makes everyone want to turn away?

The very definition of an addictive drug is one that stimulates the mesolimbic pathway, but there are three general axioms in psychopharmacology that also apply to all drugs: 1. All drugs act by changing the rate of what is already going on.2. All drugs have side effects.3. The brain adapts to all drugs that affect it by counteracting the drug’s effects.