{"product_id":"the-ghost-in-the-addict","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\u003e\"The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house,\" Jean Cocteau once wrote. In \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":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50010317881594,"sku":"9780262547970","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/1253\/1962\/files\/imageloader_6b6637a4-715a-4f61-8339-ce761ac8f296.jpg?v=1786131008","url":"https:\/\/mindsourcebooks.com\/products\/the-ghost-in-the-addict","provider":"Mind Source Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}