Thursday, September 12, 2019
Drug gangs = Drug ganglions
At the macro level, gangs use "protection" tactics to guarantee that you won't buy the product from legit sources.
New research finds that the same thing happens at the micro level.
In short:
Heroin halts the creation of new neurons, and halts the growth of dendrites on existing neurons, in the nucleus accumbens which regulates pleasure.
Result: you're locked into the supply of pleasure from heroin. When you try to get off the horse, you can't develop pleasure from other sources because your nucleus accumbens can't generate new neurons to detect and handle the legit pleasures.
Fractal racket.
Labels: defensible spaces
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