In this section on Addiction Withdrawal & Recovery we have materials related to withdrawal from substances. You can also check out symptoms associated porn withdrawal. This page contains 3 studies that reported withdrawal symptoms in porn users and sex addicts. Over 30 studies reporting findings consistent with escalation of porn use (tolerance), habituation to porn, and even withdrawal symptoms.
- Aversive Stimuli Drive Drug Seeking in a State of Low Dopamine Tone (2014)
- Brain White Matter Expansion in Human Obesity and the Recovering Effect of Dieting (2007)
- Dissociated Grey Matter Changes with Prolonged Addiction and Extended Abstinence in Cocaine Users (2013)
- Dopamine receptor expression and distribution dynamically change in the rat nucleus accumbens after withdrawal from cocaine self administration. (2010)
- Ethanol self-administration restores withdrawal-associated deficiencies in accumbal dopamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine release in dependent rats (1996)
- Increased Dopamine Receptor Activity in the Nucleus Accumbens Shell Ameliorates Anxiety during Drug Withdrawal (2012)
- Marked inhibition of mesolimbic dopamine release: a common feature of ethanol, morphine, cocaine and amphetamine abstinence in rats (1992)
- Neuro-Functional Reward Processing Changes in Cocaine Dependence during Recovery (2016)
- PET imaging of dopamine D2 receptors in monkey models of cocaine abuse genetic predisposition versus environmental modulation (2005)
- Prefrontal grey matter changes in short-term and long-term abstinent methamphetamine abusers (2006)
- Presumed structural and functional neural recovery after long-term abstinence from cocaine in male military veterans (2018)
- Profound Decreases in Dopamine Release in Striatum in Detoxified Alcoholics: Possible Orbitofrontal Involvement (2007)
- Recovery of brain glucose metabolism in detoxified alcoholics (1994)
- Recovery of dopamine transporters with methamphetamine detoxification is not linked to changes in dopamine release (2015)
- Relapse Prevention and the Five Rules of Recovery (2015), Yale Journal of Biology & Medicine
- Stimulant-induced dopamine increases are markedly blunted in active cocaine abusers (2014)
- Structural and functional abnormalities found in brains of relapsed alcohol-dependent patients (2012)
- The Molecular Neurobiology of Twelve Steps Program & Fellowship: Connecting the Dots for Recovery (2015)