Andrew Huberman· PhD
And of course addiction is a spectrum disease, - Sure. - right, and so you've got the severe end of things. Imagine that you had an itch somewhere on your body, okay. And it was, I mean, we've all had that, like, you know, whatever the source, it was super, super itchy. You can go for, you know, if you really focus, you could go for a pretty good amount of time not scratching it, but the moment you stopped focusing on not scratching it, you would scratch it. Maybe you'd do it while you were asleep, right. And that is what happens to people with severe addiction. That balance is essentially broken. Homeostasis does not get restored, despite sustained abstinence. They're living with that constant specter of that pull. It never goes away.