Today's presentation was a TED talk:
The Power of Human Nature presented by Jeff Conillard.
He asked initially, What is Addiction?
He proposed that addiction is a solution. He provided some history of human evolution, from early days when stress was caused by wild animals in the forest and our 'fight or flight' response would kick in. Today, many of us live with almost constant stress (worried about debt or other things)(cronnic stress).
He went through some of the changes in attitude and assessment of addiction. From a failure of individual to pick themselves up to classified as disease.
Jeff suggested it may be a glitch in our human operating system. We seek ways to relieve stress in our lives and to seek Eustress. Sometimes, our response to stress can become excessive, habitual, a problem.
In his experience we need human connection to help deal with stress and choice better solutions. We need to trade our cages for open spaces.