Pleasure Unwoven: The Facets of Addiction When answering the question at hand, “Addiction is a disorder of the what?” One must ponder on the question and choose an answer based on a true belief or scientific facts. McCauley (2009) pointed out in his video “Pleasure Unwoven: A personal journey about addiction” that addiction is a disorder of the brain, “the very part of the brain we need to make proper decisions.” When a person is addicted to, say, alcohol, a certain part of the brain may malfunction and negative choices may occur. With the choice argument, McCauley (2009) explained that free will allows a person to make either good choices (drinking recommended amounts of water daily) or bad choices (consuming drugs or alcohol), however, a person has the right to make choices; which constitutes a behavior. With a bad choice, the person consumes drugs or alcohol to a point that the body craves it and the urge becomes so strong, that it turns into an addiction. Nevertheless, McCauley (2009) shared that if a person who is addicted to drugs or alcohol is put into a position of life or death based on a particular choice (alcohol, drugs, or life), life wins and the person may choose not to take a drink or use drugs, as viewed on the video. McCauley (2009) concluded with information from new research expressing …show more content…
Once the first coin was placed into the gumball machine’s slot, the human mind thinks it is only getting one piece of bubble gum, which maybe standard, however, two pieces of gum appeared. According to McCauley (2012), “this is when the mid brain releases dopamine,” and the brain is informed that this experience of receiving two pieces of gum is by far the greatest reward and more that what was