{"product_id":"ghost-in-the-addict-book-shepard-siegel-9780262547970","title":"The Ghost in the Addict","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow withdrawal distress and cravings can haunt current and former addicts, and what they can teach us about addiction and its treatments.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house, Jean Cocteau once wrote. In\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eThe Ghost in the Addict\u003c\/i\u003e, Shepard Siegel offers a Pavlovian analysis of drug use. Chronic drug use, he explains, conditions users to have an anticipatory homeostatic correction, which protects the addict from overdose. This drug-preparatory response, elicited by drug-paired cues, is often mislabeled a withdrawal response. The withdrawal response, however, is not due to the baneful effects of previous drug administrations; rather, it is due to the body's preparation for the next drug administration--a preparatory response that can haunt addicts like a ghost long after they have conquered their usage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExamining the failure of legislation, the circumstances of overdose, and the cues that promote drug use, Siegel seeks to counter the widespread belief that addiction is evidence of a pathology. Instead, he proposes that the addict has an adaptive, learned response to the physiological changes wrought by drug use. It is only through understanding so-called withdrawal symptoms as a Pavlovian response, he explains, that we can begin to understand why addicts experience cravings long after their last drug use.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49753594429713,"sku":"NGR9780262547970","price":27.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/026254797X.jpg?v=1751164912","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/ghost-in-the-addict-book-shepard-siegel-9780262547970","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}