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- PAWS
- PTSD & Drinking to Cope
- Pain and Substance Use
- Acute and chronic pain
- When relief becomes part of substance use
- Prescribed opioids and pain care
- Tolerance, dependence and addiction
- Pain during withdrawal and treatment changes
- Treating pain and addiction together
- Pain that is difficult to explain or believe
- Function, family and recovery
- Advanced depth: pain mechanisms and clinical uncertainty
- Peer Pressure
- Perimenopause and Alcohol Cravings
- Peripheral Nerves and Autonomic Function
- Sensation, Strength and Automatic Regulation
- Peripheral Neuropathy and Its Different Causes
- Alcohol, Nutrition and Nerve Injury
- When Automatic Functions Become Difficult
- Nitrous Oxide and Neurological Harm
- Getting Symptoms Assessed
- Daily Life, Safety and Support
- Recovery Without a Fixed Timetable
- Advanced Depth: Nerve Fibres, Tests and Evidence
- Physical Dependence
- What Physical Dependence Means
- How the Body Adapts to Repeated Exposure
- Physical Dependence Is Not the Same as Addiction
- Physical Dependence, Tolerance and Withdrawal
- When Dependence Develops During Medical Treatment
- Why Dependence and Withdrawal Differ Between Substances
- Reducing or Stopping When Physical Dependence May Be Present
- Advanced Depth: Adaptation, Homeostasis and Dependence
- Polysubstance Use
- 1. Polysubstance Use Is More Than “Mixing Drugs”
- 2. Why Drug Effects Do Not Simply Add Up
- 3. Alcohol, Benzodiazepines, Opioids and Other Depressants
- 4. Stimulants and Depressants: Why They Do Not Cancel Each Other
- 5. Stimulant–Opioid Combinations
- 6. Sequential Use: Using One Drug to Manage Another
- 7. Unknown Contents, Counterfeit Pills and Unintentional Exposure
- 8. Overdose When More Than One Drug Is Involved
- 9. Dependence and Withdrawal From More Than One Substance
- 10. Mental Health, Sleep and the Push-Pull Cycle
- 11. Treatment and Recovery From Polysubstance Use
- 12. Advanced Science: Interaction Mechanisms, Toxicity and Clinical Complexity
- Prefrontal Cortex
- Keeping Goals in Mind and Changing Direction
- Judgement, Emotion and What Matters Now
- Alcohol, Other Substances and Different Kinds of Change
- When an Intention Is Hard to Carry Out
- Development Without a Birthday Switch
- Recovery and Making Daily Demands Manageable
- Advanced Depth: Networks, Tests and Interpretation
- Pregnancy, Postpartum and Substance Use
- Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Development
- Psychology of Addiction
- What Psychology Adds to Understanding Addiction
- Why People Use: Motives Can Differ and Change
- Expectations, Beliefs and Substance Use
- Emotion Regulation and Using to Change How You Feel
- Attention and Automatic Cognitive Bias
- Immediate Rewards, Future Consequences and Decision-Making
- Automatic and Reflective Processes
- Impulsivity, Self-Control and Executive Function
- Self-Efficacy: Believing You Can Respond Differently
- Psychological Change During Recovery
- Advanced Depth: Cognitive-Affective Models, Decision-Making and Behavioural Control
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