Addiction isn't just about drugs. Sugar, alcohol, porn, shopping, phone scrolling, chemsex—they all hijack the same dopamine reward system in your brain. The speaker argues we should recognize all these compulsions as addiction, not just the illegal ones.
When we don't consider that addictions is a, is a term that is way broader than just the drugs use. We as a society, as human beings, actually, I would say we like, we tend to like to intoxicate ourselves and to use stimulants starting from sugar, alcohol, tobacco, pornography. And as everything in small doses, and if you know how to manage it, stimulants can be fun. And chemsex and the drugs related to chemsex are also part of those stimulants. And so to my point of view, I don't see much difference between a person that engages in chemsex and a person that has compulsive shopping online or likes to scroll on a daily basis on their phone, even when they're walking in the street. They are just using, they are, they are, they have, they are, they have an addiction and they're more or less aware of that. We just, we just need to change the way we look at these addictions and understanding that the mechanism at the base is the same for each one of us, which is the dopamine reward system. Mm-hmm. Simple as that.
