Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

by Judith Grisel

The cost of abstinence seemed too high: Without drugs, what would there be to live for anyway?

One of my greatest assets is knowing that my primary enemy is not outside me, and for this I am grateful to all my experiences. We all have the capacity for wrong; otherwise we could not, in fact, be free.

The opposite of addiction, I have learned, is not sobriety but choice.

Dopamine in both pathways naturally declines with age, partly accounting for general decreases in the eagerness to explore new things and the ability to quickly move toward them.

the bottom line of this book, is that there can never be enough drug.

I can do any drug I want, as long as I don’t really want to do it.

As a result of looking closely at any problem, we increasingly realize the flaws in our assumptions and ask better and better questions.