The Stages of Change Model of Overcoming Addiction
Interoceptive awareness plays an important role in the transition from goal-directed behaviours to more reflexive, compulsive actions, a transition that is intimately connected to both internal (interoceptive) and external (exteroceptive) cues. These DA responses to conditioned cues often surpass the response to the drugs (i.e., the DA increase in response to the drug is lower […]
