6. Addiction Through the Lens of Epigenetics: Cocaine and the Reward System

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Seemingly overnight, Amy Winehouse was catapulted into the limelight with her massively successful single, “Rehab.” Rather than seeing the lyrics of this famed chorus as a cry for help, they were received as an ironic joke by the public, an invitation to ridicule Winehouse for anything related to her drug abuse and addiction. In 2011, the tone changed when Amy Winehouse was found dead on the floor of her apartment from an apparent alcohol overdose. What many people didn’t know until the documentary, Amy, came out in 2015 was that she had been clean for weeks before her overdose, and that this pattern of relapse had been occurring for quite a while. This breeds the question: Why are addicts so prone to relapse, even after long periods of sobriety? Does the saying, “Once an addict, always an addict” have a biological truth?

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