Addiction - Why we must change our way of thinking about addiction

Op-Ed by Albert Geokgeuzian, Staff Writer

The story we’ve always been told about addiction and especially hard drugs like cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine is that once you get hooked and your brain builds a tolerance for it, it is very difficult to stop without experiencing withdrawal symptoms. What this article will hopefully show you is that the scary story about the effects of hard drugs, and subsequently addiction, isn’t entirely true.