Addiction

Why is it that some people survive drug and alcohol abuse, even manage their lives with it, while others succumb got addiction?
According to Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Use, people who are addicted to cocain, heroin and alcohol have fewer dopamine receptors in the brain's reward pathways than nonaddicts.
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter critical to the experience of pleasure and desire, and sends a signal to the brain.
Drug addicts may have blunted reward systems in the brain, and everyday pleasures don't come close to the powerful reward of drugs.
More than likely a complex interplay of genes, environment and psychology play an integral role in determining addiction.
Then, why can't we be addicted to God's love?
Wouldn't it be awesome to tell someone I'm a Christian-aholic.
I'm addicted to God's grace and love and mercy.
Gadzooks!
That would be the best high on the planet. Just tune in, turn off (the other drug addictions) and let God take you higher and higher into an oblivious state of emotional fervor filled with love.
Sounds like a plot for a hippie happy party of a time in a Christian environment.
But wouldn't that be much more fulfilling than drugs?
God can take us higher into a nirvana state of ecstasy. And the only hangover would be wanting to do it again and again.