“Addiction Is Not A Disease Of The Brain”

…we haven’t discovered, in the reward reinforcement system, a neurochemical signature of addiction. We haven’t discovered the place where addiction happens in the brain. After all, the so-called highjacking of the reward system is not itself a neurochemical process; it is a process whereby neurochemical events get entrained within in a larger pattern of action and decision making.

Is addiction a disease of the brain? That’s a bit like saying that eating is a phenomenon of the stomach.  

By Alva Noë, a professor of philosophy who works on perception and consciousness at the University of California, Berkeley.

Feel like you are being told the opposite of what was just recently declared by the American Society of Addiction Medicine? Then read more here.