Time Magazine’s “How We Get Addicted”
Time magazine's cover story on addiction,
"How We Get Addicted"
The cover story in the July 16, 2007 edition of Time ("The Science of Addiction," by Michael D. Lemonick, a recovering addict, with Alice Park) provides evidence that something goes haywire in the brain of addicts as a result of use, which supports the idea of addiction as a brain disease. While the story combined a number of non-substance addictions with the drugs, because of the role of dopamine in driving the reward circuits in non-substance compulsions I won't quibble. It explained the reason why "90 meetings in 90 days" works as well as it does to put the addict on the road to long-term sobriety (this appears to be "how ...
