Drug addiction, love, and the higher power.
Evaluation & the health professions September 2011 Steve Sussman, Michel Reynaud, Henri-Jean Aubin et al.
This discussion piece suggests that reliance on a Higher Power in drug abuse recovery programs is entertained among some addicts for its psychobiological effects. Prayer, meditation, early romantic love, and drug abuse may have in common activation of mesolimbic dopaminergic pathways of the brain and the generation of intense emotional states. In this sense, reliance on a Higher Power may...