Love Potion #9

According to recent advances in SCIENCE!, the effects of love on the brain are entirely similar to the effects of cocaine:

While participants felt many different emotions when thinking of the person they loved, they all had one thing in common – they all showed activation in the ventral tegmental area, the right posterodorsal body and the medial caudate nucleus of the brain, according to the journal Monitor on Psychology.

These dopamine-rich regions "signal satiation of deep needs", said Prof Fisher. "All basic drives are associated with the dopamine system, and so is romantic love."

Prof Fisher said: "Addictions are very powerful, and cocaine addiction is associated with dopamine systems." She also speculated that the increase in energy people newly in love experience may be due to a flush of dopamine.

It's just that simple, and just in time for Valentine's Day! (Which I intend to spend making dirty, dirty love to a pile of strange white powder.)