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Re:On why I gave up drinking in my early twenties by smeej on Thursday December 22, 2022 @08:54PM (#34101475)
I was wondering the same thing.

The "neurons that fire together wire together" notion seems to hold in a lot of situations, but I don't know enough about the drug to know if it would be specific to treating alcoholism.

Re:On why I gave up drinking in my early twenties by jolmg on Thursday December 22, 2022 @09:13PM (#34101596)
Yeah, I didn't mean the specific drug. I imagine that habits generally work by needing some chemical to act as a reward to reinforce it, maybe different chemicals for different habits. The idea of forming a good habit to preempt a bad habit with something that will block the reward chemical, whatever it is for the bad habit, is interesting, and I wonder how generally it can be applied. Like, I wonder if it would be an effective idea to block dopamine or another chemical to help against bad habits related to computers/internet or food.