Meth floods the brain with dopamine, creating intense pleasure that fades fast. Users chase the same high by taking more and seeking increasingly extreme experiences, not because they're morally broken, but because their brain needs more intensity to feel anything.
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just the nature of meth particularly and other related drugs, um, who just boost up the release of dopamine to these stratospheric levels. That's what gives the arousal such intensity. That's what gives the experience such intensity. But very quickly, our bodies develop tolerance to that. And so, uh, the— what, what was really exciting last week isn't so much this week. And so we have to kind of up the ante, if you will, and we escalate our behaviors, we escalate the fantasies, we escalate the intensity. Uh, and that often very quickly gets into dark, um, darker, more taboo topics, because taboo, kink, you know, things that are risqué, all that is exciting. And, and that's what people are going for. It's not so much that these people are kind of morally bankrupt or, or driven toward this. I think it's just this— they're chasing the intensity, and