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The Addiction Trap
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Series: Health Care and Clinical Research
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ISBN13: 9798248261253
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 13 2026
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 13 2026
Pages: 230
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Why does addiction look the same everywhere - whether the substance is heroin or the behavior is scrolling a screen? Why does recovery follow the same agonizing cycle of hope and relapse, regardless of what a person is addicted to? And why does the boundary between addicts and everyone else feel so uncomfortably thin?
Boris Kriger spent three decades in the world of addiction - as a young paramedic in the Soviet Union, a rehabilitation worker in Jerusalem, and a clergyman running a shelter in Canada. He never used drugs himself, but the patterns he observed were so consistent, so mechanical, that they drove him to ask a question no existing theory could answer: if the substances are so different, why is the trap always the same?
The answer, developed in a formal mathematical theory and translated here into vivid, accessible prose, is that addiction is not a disease of chemistry. It is a structural property - a trap defined by five conditions that can be satisfied by any substance, any behavior, any technology that short-circuits the brain's natural effort-to-reward pathway. This book explains those five conditions, reveals the three feedback loops that hold the trap together, and shows how every known intervention - from twelve-step programs to methadone therapy to environmental relocation - maps onto a specific structural attack.
From the neurochemistry of teenage vulnerability to the coming threat of brain-implant addiction, The Addiction Trap offers a new way of seeing - one that replaces moral judgment with structural understanding, and transforms the question from Why can't you just stop? to Which part of the trap do we break first?
The full mathematical theory is included as an appendix for readers who wish to engage with the formal apparatus. Keywords
addiction, reward, oscillation, vulnerability, structure, intervention, freedom
The answer, developed in a formal mathematical theory and translated here into vivid, accessible prose, is that addiction is not a disease of chemistry. It is a structural property - a trap defined by five conditions that can be satisfied by any substance, any behavior, any technology that short-circuits the brain's natural effort-to-reward pathway. This book explains those five conditions, reveals the three feedback loops that hold the trap together, and shows how every known intervention - from twelve-step programs to methadone therapy to environmental relocation - maps onto a specific structural attack.
From the neurochemistry of teenage vulnerability to the coming threat of brain-implant addiction, The Addiction Trap offers a new way of seeing - one that replaces moral judgment with structural understanding, and transforms the question from Why can't you just stop? to Which part of the trap do we break first?
The full mathematical theory is included as an appendix for readers who wish to engage with the formal apparatus. Keywords
addiction, reward, oscillation, vulnerability, structure, intervention, freedom
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