Chained by Craving: The Science and The Escape - Couverture souple

Taraben, Dr. Ghassan

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798258734594

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

Chained by Addiction & Craving

The Science of Addiction, the Power of Treatment, and the Path to Freedom

Chained by Craving is a powerful, clinically grounded guide to understanding addiction, craving, and recovery in all their major forms. Blending neuroscience, psychology, real-world treatment strategies, and emerging advances in addiction medicine, this book explains how addiction hijacks the brain’s reward system, habit circuits, stress response, emotional memory, and search for meaning—and how freedom can be rebuilt step by step.

The book explores nicotine, alcohol, opioids, methamphetamine, pornography, gambling, food, technology, and other compulsive behaviors, showing that addiction is not simply weakness or moral failure. It is a complex disorder of brain, behavior, trauma, environment, memory, craving, and repetition. Yet it is also treatable when approached with truth, structure, medical knowledge, psychological support, and long-term recovery planning.

In addition to established treatments such as detoxification, medication-assisted treatment, cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, trauma-informed therapy, group support, relapse prevention, and family recovery, Chained by Craving also examines the future of addiction treatment. Special attention is given to emerging and adjunctive therapies, including neuromodulation, personalized medicine, stem-cell and regenerative approaches, and psilocybin-assisted therapy.

The discussion of psilocybin is presented with scientific caution and clinical responsibility. Psilocybin is not described as a casual cure or self-directed treatment, but as a promising area of research that may improve brain-network flexibility, reduce depressive rumination, and help selected patients engage more deeply with psychotherapy when administered in controlled clinical settings with professional preparation, supervision, and integration support.

The book also addresses regenerative medicine and stem-cell-related research with the same balanced approach: hopeful but honest, scientifically curious but careful not to overpromise. These emerging therapies may one day help selected aspects of brain repair, inflammation, neuroplasticity, trauma recovery, or addiction-related damage, but they must be understood within the limits of evidence, ethics, and proper medical oversight.

Written for general readers, families, clinicians, counselors, recovery specialists, and anyone seeking a serious but readable roadmap out of compulsive behavior, Chained by Craving serves as both a science-driven reference and a practical recovery handbook. It offers clear explanations, treatment guidance, recovery planning, relapse-prevention tools, patient education, and high-value appendices designed to help readers understand addiction deeply and fight it intelligently.

At its heart, this book carries one message: craving may chain the brain, distort desire, and imprison behavior—but with science, treatment, support, structure, courage, and hope, recovery is possible.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798258734594
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 345
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