You've got used to them-and they're at least as addictive as nicotine or crack cocaine.
After all, they managed to cut crime when several trends, from the growing availability of crack cocaine to the continued breakdown of poor families, were against them.
Although dopamine is often associated with the experience of pleasure-it represents "rewards," such as chocolate cake or crack cocaine-it also helps make us want stuff.
One unnamed American college student told of their overwhelming cravings, which they confessed was similar to “itching like a crackhead(crack cocaine addict)”.
Shortly afterwards, her father said in an interview that she was suffering from emphysema and had been warned by doctors that she would die if she continued smoking crack cocaine and cigarettes.
