What is the thing that comes into your mind when you read the word “addiction”? Is it a person abusing stimulants or sedatives? Or is it a person laying odds?Or is it a person enslaved to bodily pleasures? Or is it a person craving consumption? Or is it a person fixated on screens? Well,whatever comes to your mind ,it is one or another form of monomania.So what is the science behind this behaviour? Ok so let's first acknowledge emotions we feel at the summit of addiction ,which are happiness, pleasure, motivation, love. These emotions are the purveyor of beer and skittles and the regisseur behind them is dopamine. You have probably came across this word but do you know what it is? Dopamine is a neurotransmitter or a chemical messenger,which our body makes and our nervous system uses it to send messages between nerve cells. When something we perceive to be good is generated in our systems, that’s when dopamine neurons are activated. Different people need different pleasures and re...
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