Environment and social setting is known to be important for addiction (along with basically everything else in perception and behavior, e.g. compensatory respon

Environment and social setting is known to be important for addiction (along with basically everything else in perception and behavior, e.g. compensatory responses [1]), I think it's just a matter of how long it takes for scientific nuance to go mainstream. The simplified picture is still often the chemical picture, imo, for 2 reasons: 1) the public forgets that the brain is an organ that obeys physical laws, and that behavior and perception depend entirely on the brain. 2) Ok, yes, environment is important, but how is that represented in the brain? It's still physiological, which inevitably includes chemicals. [1] http://nobaproject.com/modules/conditioning-and-learning http://nobaproject.com/modules/conditioning-and-learning