According to the Focus on Neuroscience box "The Addicted Brain," one psychological effect of the physical changes that occur as a result of addiction to alcohol, heroin, cocaine, or amphetamines is that:
A) anxiety creates a vicious circle of insomnia.
B) positive events in normal life are no longer reinforcing or satisfying.
C) people make poor decisions because of damage to the frontal lobes.
D) inhibitions are lowered and there is a general loss of social self-consciousness

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Addiction alters the brain's reward system, making normal life events less satisfying compared to the substance, leading to a lack of reinforcement from positive events.

According to the Focus on Neuroscience Box "The Addicted Brain