Once an Addicted Person Stops Abusing an Addictive Drug, the Sensitization

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Once an addicted person stops abusing an addictive drug, the sensitization of the brain's reward circuits to the addictive drug quickly diminishes, usually within a couple of days.

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Definitions:

Reasons

The explanations or justifications for an action or belief, often examined in the context of decision-making and problem-solving.

Omission Training

A learning process in which a response leads to the removal of an expected reward or positive outcome, thereby decreasing the likelihood of that response in the future.

Response Cost

A behavior modification technique that involves the loss of a reward or privilege following undesired behaviors to decrease their occurrence.

Timeout

A form of behavioral modification that involves temporarily removing an individual from an environment where undesirable behavior has occurred, to decrease the likelihood of that behavior reoccurring.