Full Description
Drug addictions are often difficult to treat. The most successful treatments begin with studying why individuals become addicted to drugs and how to change their thinking and behaviour. Cognitive, Clinical, and Neural Aspects of Drug Addiction focuses on the theories that cause drug addiction, including avoidance behavior, self-medication, reward sensitization, behavioral inhibition and impulsivity. Dr. Moustafa takes this book one step further by reviewing the psychological and neural causes of relapse including the role of stress, anxiety and depression. By examining both the causes of drug addiction and relapse, this book will help clinicians create individualized treatment options for patients suffering from drug addiction.
Contents
1. Learning from aversive vs. appetitive outcome in drug addiction2. The role of contextual processes in drug use and relapse3. Avoidance behavior in addiction4. Behavioral inhibition and impulsivity as factors underlying drug use5. Delay, probability and effort discounting underlying addictive behaviors6. The varieties of risk taking behaviors in drug abuse7. Extinction learning in addiction: relevance to cue exposure therapy8. The psychological causes of relapse9. Future thinking and intolerance of uncertainty in addiction10. The bidirectional relationship between depression and addiction11. The role of stress and anxiety in drug use and relapse12. The effect of trauma on drug use13. Theories of Addiction: self-medication vs. reward sensitization14. Summary and future directions in addiction research
