Escaping Addiction

Name: Escaping Addiction
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd
SKU: 9781538180747
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Resetting the Brain for Success

By George F. Koob and Patrick Bordeaux

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Escaping Addiction explores the complex nature of addiction, presenting various causes and effective tools for breaking the cycle. The authors explain how addictive behaviours often start in childhood and are reinforced through reward systems, and highlight treatments ranging from medications to therapeutic approaches. This book aims to provide a thorough understanding of addiction mechanisms to help individuals overcome addictions to substances or behaviours such as alcohol, drugs, food, or video games.
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Ideal for individuals struggling with addiction, their families, and mental health professionals seeking a clear and practical guide to the biology and treatment of addiction.

The key to escape addiction is to deconstruct the intense pleasure memories linked to it and to create new memories of happiness with others. This book presents helpful tools to accomplish this mission. Our goal is to motivate patients to change their operating mode, give hope...

Presents a variety of effective tools to break the cycle of addiction.

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Presents a variety of effective tools to break the cycle of addiction.

Addiction is a worldwide curse that seems to be growing in seriousness on a yearly basis. While to the general public addiction may seem almost inescapable, the truth is that there are solutions to overcoming the various addictions, though to date they seem more elusive than attainable. The goal of Escaping Addiction is to highlight the variety of causes of addiction alongside an array of useful tools anyone can use to break the cycle of addiction, whether it’s to alcohol, drugs, food, or video games.

The seeds of addictive behaviour are often planted in childhood then fed to grow over years of the input and reward cycle. Detaching the rewards from the addictive input is key to breaking the habits that keep us addicted. Here, the authors present the variety of treatments – from medications to therapeutic approaches – that can help. Offering a better understanding of the mechanisms of addiction, this book can help anyone struggling with addiction to unravel it in their own lives.

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This book is praised for making detailed clinical information about addiction accessible through clear language and helpful illustrations. It combines scientific explanations with real-life stories, offering valuable insights into brain anatomy, chemical imbalances, and stress triggers involved in addiction. Both mental health professionals and those affected by addiction will find new psychological and pharmaceutical strategies that target specific brain functions. Reviewers see it as a much-needed and comprehensive resource for understanding and overcoming addiction.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781538180747

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 29 October 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield

Illustration: 22 b/w photos; 9 tables

Contributors:

Illustrated by Melanie Baillairge

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 146.0mm

Height: 224.0mm

Weight: 503g

Pages: 340

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Addiction & Recovery George F. Koob Health & Wellness Non-Fiction Patrick Bordeaux Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Patrick Bordeaux, MD, is a dual citizen of France and the US. Bordeaux is currently Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada, and practices Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Quebec. He is also a consulting child and adolescent psychiatrist in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. He is a Fellow of The Royal College of Physicians of Canada (FRCPC) and of The American Psychiatric Association (FAPA), a Diplomate of the American Board of Addiction Medicine (DABAM), and a member of The Canadian Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

George Koob, PhD, has been Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) since 2014. Koob has published over 650 peer reviewed papers and several books including the Neurobiology of Addiction. He spent much of his early career at the Scripps Research Institute as the Director of the Alcohol Research Center, and as Professor and Chair of the Scripps’ Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders. He has also served as a researcher in the Department of Neurophysiology at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge, and as staff scientist in the Arthur Vining Davis Center for Behavioral Neurobiology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.