Vera Tarman in Frontiers in Psychiatry 2024 Nov 13;15:1488769. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1488769.
From the study’s abstract: “Addiction is a complex neurobiological disorder characterized by compulsive drug-seeking and use despite harmful consequences. While abstinence-based approaches have long been the cornerstone of addiction treatment, recent years have seen legitimate challenges from harm reduction clinicians, and within the food addiction realm, the eating disorder treatment practitioners. This perspective emphasizes the role of abstinence in food addiction recovery using the Koob model and its concept of hyperkatifeia despite these reservations.”