If it was just opioids or ampthetamines, alcohol or nocotine wouldn't be addictive, would it? Please don't use incomplete or irrelevant factoids when you contradict.
But prediction of reward might very well be a concise description of the drive behind social media use.
Obviously it's not. I gave examples of two drugs and their direct mechanisms of action.
>But prediction of reward might very well be a concise description of the drive behind social media use.
No, that's a description of a living mammal brain. Addiction is when that system is hijacked directly, not when it is doing it's normal thing in response to stimuli.
I get you're concentrating on me not listing every mechanism of directly effecting the biochemistry of the reward and reward prediction substrates in the brain. But that doesn't matter.
The distinction I'm trying to get across here is that normal stimuli that are just perceptions are not intrinsically addictive and when you claim one is there is a need for evidence of the claim.
But prediction of reward might very well be a concise description of the drive behind social media use.