How Digital Distractions Are Restructuring Our Reward Pathways: Anna lembe

I asked Dr. Anna Lembke about what she calls the "drugification of modern life:"

"Almost everything that we eat & that we engage in—including traditional drugs like cocaine, heroin, nicotine, and alcohol—have all become more accessible, more potent, more novel, more bountiful. And those factors make them, in essence, more addictive.

Even healthy behaviors—things like playing games or connecting with other human beings or exercise—have become drugified through the application of technology, again, made more accessible, more potent, more novel, more bountiful.

So, we're living in this strange day and age when we've essentially bio-hacked all of the things that we do and really come to organize our lives around our little rewards.

So, we wake up in the morning, we reach for our phones, we have our cup of coffee, we have our favorite muffin, we drive to work, and we listen to whatever we want to listen [to.]

Throughout our day, we work and then we take a series of breaks and we scroll on our phones. At the end of the day, we look forward to going home and eating some kind of delectable, delectable food, or binging on Netflix or eating cupcakes or smoking pot or drinking."

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