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By Gary Taubes
"Why did you ever try narcotics?" William Burroughs writes in Junky,his classic tale of descent into the hell of drug addiction. "Why did you continue using it long enough to become an addict?" To Burroughs, the answer is simple, if not mundane: "You become a narcotics addict because you do not have strong motivations in any other direction. Junk wins by default. I tried it as a matter of curiosity. I drifted along taking shots when I could score. I ended up hooked."
To scientists, drug addiction is considerably more complex. continued...
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