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Post-Addiction Cravings: Navigating Withdrawal

7 Jun 2024 · 0 min

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A short YouTube talk by Amber Hollingsworth explaining that when people stop an addictive substance or behavior they commonly substitute or crave sugar, caffeine, or nicotine as part of broader dopamine/withdrawal effects. The clip highlights these three common post-addiction cravings and frames them as manifestations of generalized withdrawal.

When someone stops using a substance or starts abstaining from whatever their addictive behavior is, you will very frequently see that they're going to either start using nicotine like crazy, craving sugar like crazy, or caffeinated drinks. So we're talking about sugar, caffeine, nicotine. Those are very sort of common things that it's almost like the person is in. Not just withdrawal from, of course, the substance that they're stopping, but also, like dopamine withdrawal, just everything withdrawal.