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* 1. Scientists rely on dopamine as a kind of universal currency for measuring the addictive potential of any experience. The more dopamine in the brains reward pathway, the more addictive the experience.  

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* 2. Dopamine is not the only neurotransmitter involved in reward processing but most neuroscientists agree it is the most important. Dopamine may play a bigger role in the motivation to get a reward than the reward itself. 

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* 3. The internet promotes compulsive overconsumption not by providing increased acess to drugs old and new, but also by suggesting behaviors that otherwise may never have occurred to us. 

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