On Mourning and Recovery-Integrating Stages of Grief and Change Toward a Neuroscience-Based Model of Attachment Adaptation i

Course overview

Interpersonal attachment and drug addiction share many attributes across their behavioral and neurobiological domains. Understanding the over-lapping brain circuitry of attachment formation and addiction can lead to a better understanding of how it relates to metal illness and comorbid substance use disorders. The authors examine a theory that the recovery from addiction is a grief process, highlighting the Kubler-Ross stages of grief and Prochaska's stages of change. Theorizing that attachment to the providers in recovery is the significant factor to success in recovery, and that using grief therapy is the key to recovery with less relapse.