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Oct 1, 2019 · Addiction, Attachment, Trauma, and Recovery presents a model, a method, and a mandate. This new focus calls for change in the established ways we think and behave about addiction and recovery.
- Oliver J. Morgan
However, the most dislocated opioid users must endure intractable, crushing absence of attachment, belonging, identity, meaning, and purpose in their lives. For them, opioid addiction – not just opioid use – can provide a desperately needed, irreplaceable, substitute for what is missing.
Aug 13, 2022 · In a very brief summary, Bruce Alexander and colleagues studied how rats would behave in an environment with the choice of having water mixed in with a drug or not. They found that almost all of the rats chose the bottle of water mixed with an addictive substance over the one without.
‘Rat Park’ is the name given to a series of studies beginning in the 1970s and led by Bruce K. Alexander in his laboratory at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, where he found that rats living in a social environment were less likely to self-administer oral morphine than those housed in isolation.
Bruce K. Alexander, Professor Emeritus, Psychology Department, Simon Fraser University. Abstract. Global society has failed to control a devastating flood of addiction to drug use and innumerable other habits. A century of scientific research has not produced a durable consensus on what addiction is, what causes it, and how it can be remedied.
Lack of stable attachment in infancy or traumatic abuse, due to fragmentation of families (or any other reason) can make a child insecure and unlikely to achieve satisfactory integration in society later in life (Bowlby, 1969).
Bruce K. Alexander (born 20 December 1939) [ 1] is a psychologist and professor emeritus from Vancouver, BC, Canada. [ 1] He has taught and conducted research on the psychology of addiction at Simon Fraser University since 1970. [ 2] He retired from active teaching in 2005.
