Usenet Newsgroups Re: Addiction Is a Brain Disease - Leshner From: yexxxx@sbell.net (Gary) On 2010-09-03 13:31:01 -0500, "Ted L." <TedL719@yahoo.com> said: In article <a3613530-c016-4d4d-9f0a-67a13863fed4@m17g2000prl.googlegroups.com>,  jimbo <jblair@videotron.ca> wrote: Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/link.php on line 13 If addiction is a product of brain chemistry then one could alter the Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/link.php on line 13 brain chemistry to restore it to "normal,' Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/link.php on line 13 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/link.php on line 13 Not likely, if what that brain chemistry refers to is rewiring of Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/link.php on line 13 neurons, different proteins (there are some theories that memories are Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/link.php on line 13 encoded in proteins in the fluid in the brain) and dying or growing of Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/link.php on line 13 various receptors. Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/link.php on line 13 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/link.php on line 13 Brain relates to the body but does it relate to "I", the ccnscious self?  Or is there some immaterial Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/link.php on line 13 "I"?  Evolution doesn't require the kind of thinking we do and the kind of morality we (some) practice. Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/link.php on line 13 In fact, evolution tends to be oriented more to the animals than to humans.  Survival and continuation of the gene pool.  Things like family protection, neighborly love, sharing of food, and many more don't meet the evolutionary critirea which is material in essence.  A brain disease would be cancer, but would it be anger, hatred, love, caring?  Does social grouping make an evolutionary statement? Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/censor.php on line 11 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cyberfiber/cyberfiber.com/health+support+recovery/lib/link.php on line 13 Curious. 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