ADDICTION

There is a cycle of dependencythat emanates from deep within, recessed in the Nucleus Accumbens,so let the biology begin.Not far from the Thalamus -the epicentre of regulating emotional responses
 It operates with a circularitythat defies all  polarity -there is no ambivalence in the brain! Addiction is inherentwhether  for loveor pain. Buddhists speak of the sorrow of Samsaraa craving for that which alludes us,a mere vision, an illusion....But they never colluded with theneuro-physicists who construed it or saw cascading neurotransmitters
 bathe  "the dopamine reward pathway"
 that leads straight to heaven and personal gain.
  Addictionis rooted in the very sapof our being,It piggy backs on juicesthat flow into feeling.Cognitive processes that make us "think""THIS IS BEING -we're happy,  we've tried it
 and by God we know  we need more! We are reminded to:down that drink, shoot that heroin,snort that powdergive the roulette another go.Emulate the famous who are permitted to show -a proclivity for sexand whatever other forms of excess,
 without hampering our ability

to say "No!"   BjR  5 April, '10