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I'm not sure that it actually is dopamine addiction. Wouldn't we need to have some sort of brain assay to say that it is? There is another chemical though, which does not have as deleterious effects as dopamine, and that's oxytocin. Oxytocin, if I recall correctly, doesn't have the boom-bust cycles (ups and downs), it's just a free glowing high that may have source in social relationships.


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