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Letter: Opium of the people?

Published 7 December 2002

From Susan Peak

Your feature “Love is the drug” describes the neurological parallels between drug addiction and sex drive (23 November, p 38). I wonder if something similar happens when recovering alcoholics become deeply religious? Such people can often demonstrate a fervour that seems to me similar to the “falling-in-love” experience described in the article.

Ashton-under-Lyne Lancashire, UK

Issue no. 2372 published 7 December 2002

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