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Re:Origins of the myth of dopamine as the ‘pleasure chemical’ by wetpaws on Sunday April 15, 2018 @03:31PM (#16844435)
As someone correctly mentioned below, opioids are not "pleasure molecules", they are dopamine uptake inhibitors. Basically, antidepressants.
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