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"Addiction Is a Failure of Willpower"

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Picturing addiction as pure willpower failure overstates a real process — some substances co-opt the same potentiation pathway, per Bio 2833, underlying learning and memory.

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A drug that hijacks LTP strengthens drug-associated synapses like ordinary repeated learning.

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This entry states the popular assumption — Bio 2837 gives the neural mechanism this misconception overlooks.