Addiction can be a loaded term. The word originated in the 16th century to denote an abnormal attachment, typically to ...

This theory aligns with the allostasis model of addiction, which describes how excessive drinking shifts from a positive reinforcement phase, where alcohol brings pleasure, to a negative ...

A U of M researcher developed a computational model of addiction which can be used to make predictions about human behavior, animal behavior, and neurophysiology. By bringing addiction theory into ...

Since the disease model is static and inevitable — drug use causes addiction — the idea of outgrowing (maturing out of) addiction is discarded in favor of lifetime addictive drug maintenance ...

In standard brain disease models of addiction, the neurotoxic effects of abused psychoactive substances are thought to cause brain changes that spur compulsive cravings for drink, smokes, or dope.

These questions lead to a broader model of addiction, which breaks down into two diagnoses. Primary illness: clinical depression. Secondary illness: Drug addiction.

Robert Granfield and William Cloud conceptualized the theoretical foundations of recovery capital, contributing to a paradigmatic shift in the science of addiction recovery.