The Neuroscience of Addiction

What if addiction had nothing to do with weakness, and everything to do with wiring?

For too long, addiction has been judged as a moral failure. Modern neuroscience tells a different story. The Neuroscience of Addiction takes you inside the addicted mind — showing how substances and compulsive behaviors seize the brain's ancient reward circuitry, dismantle the very systems responsible for judgment and self-control, and carve cravings so deep they outlast years of sobriety.

But this is also a story of repair. Drawing on landmark research, Shafaat Ali reveals how the broken brain heals — and why recovery is biology correcting biology.