The cost of addiction is high. In 1992 the estimated cost of substance abuse in British Columbia was $2.2 billion, but that is just money. It is difficult to know the full cost of lives eroded away by addiction because addiction is more than an addict. The price of addiction is also paid by all the lives that are touched by an addict as well. In a way we are all chained to the networks in the brain that cause addiction. But, a group of scientists out of the University of British Columbia are examining the biological chains of addiction…