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What My Pitbull Honey Taught Me About Addiction
What can a pitbull teach us about addiction, relapse, and recovery? This episode explores addiction through the story of Honey, a pitbull whose intense prey drive offers a surprisingly useful way to understand dopamine, reward salience, limbic activation, prefrontal control, and why the addicted brain can continue pursuing something long after the pleasure is gone. It also looks at why knowing the consequences often fails to stop addictive behavior, how recovery retrains the brain, and why structure can create more freedom over time.
The conversation also moves into relapse, shame…
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