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What is addiction?
Module 03 Misconceptions in Treatment
So the state, health, function and education of the PFC is what determines your self-control. It determines your time frame: are you focused on the next few hours or what you want to happen in the next month or the next year? It determines if you avoid things that hurt your long-term health including the long-term health of your brain and self-control. It determines how much control you have over the use of alcohol, drugs, medications and other tempting short-term fixes that comes at a long-term price.
Let us briefly go over the main misconceptions in the common understanding of self-control and the PFC: First: The true nature of executive function is hidden by a reductionist understanding of short-term behavior. This is some simplified version of Darwinism, where going for the quick fix that will hurt you long-term is somehow “natural”. As if you were just being naturally greedy and doing what comes natural to you. And as if thinking about consequences is not pretty natural for a human.
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