Emotions drive behavior, but stories frame emotions and create meaning. Emotions are fundamentally body response and experience - but these take on meaning as we begin to tell ourselves things about them. This also profoundly effects the psychological effects of medications. Placebo effects accounted for approximately 80 percent of the efficacy of the six most widely prescribed antidepressants approved by the FDA between 1987 and 1999. We know that whether someone has a good trip or a bad trip on LSD has more to do with the expectations of the user before taking the drug than it does with the quantity or quality of drug taken. All medications are administered in a psychosocial set and setting which profoundly influences their effects. So it is not surprising that addiction is not what you thought it was. huffingtonpost/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html
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