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Addictions: Clues to Recovery
There is a clear connection between substance abuse and eating disorders. Both involve a consuming search for an unbroken "high" to chase away the "lows." Starved anorexics have learned to rely on the opiates their bodies produce to deaden the devastating stress of starvation. When they eat normally, they feel badly because the endorphins, etc. disappear.