Never enough : the neuroscience and experience of addiction / Judith Grisel.
2019
RC564 .G75 2019 (Mapit)
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Title
Never enough : the neuroscience and experience of addiction / Judith Grisel.
Author
Grisel, Judith, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780385542845 (hardcover)
0385542844 (hardcover)
0385542844 (hardcover)
Published
New York : Doubleday, [2019]
Language
English
Description
241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Call Number
RC564 .G75 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.29
Summary
"Addiction is epidemic and catastrophic. With more than one in every five people over the age of fourteen addicted, drug abuse has been called the most formidable health problem worldwide. If we are not victims ourselves, we all know someone struggling with the merciless compulsion to alter their experience by changing how their brain functions. Drawing on years of research--as well as personal experience as a recovered addict--researcher and professor Judy Grisel has reached a fundamental conclusion: for the addict, there will never be enough drugs. The brain's capacity to learn and adapt is seemingly infinite, allowing it to counteract any regular disruption, including that caused by drugs. What begins as a normal state punctuated by periods of being high transforms over time into a state of desperate craving that is only temporarily subdued by a fix, explaining why addicts are unable to live either with or without their drug. One by one, Grisel shows how different drugs act on the brain, the kind of experiential effects they generate, and the specific reasons why each is so hard to kick. Grisel's insights lead to a better understanding of the brain's critical contributions to addictive behavior, and will help inform a more rational, coherent, and compassionate response to the epidemic in our homes and communities"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Brain food
Adaptation
One salient example: THC
Dream weavers: opiates
The sledgehammer: alcohol
The downer class: tranquilizers
Pick me ups: stimulants
Seeing clearly now: psychedelics
A will and a way: other abused drugs
Why me?
Solving addiction.
Adaptation
One salient example: THC
Dream weavers: opiates
The sledgehammer: alcohol
The downer class: tranquilizers
Pick me ups: stimulants
Seeing clearly now: psychedelics
A will and a way: other abused drugs
Why me?
Solving addiction.