Cause Of Relapse Analysis

Pinel explains that the three different causes of relapse are stress, drug priming and exposure to cues. Due to this finding, I would not recommend moving back to the house they lived in before. Some people might use heroin as a coping mechanism. It is a way to escape the stressor that are being presented in their daily lives. Allowing them to move back might remind them of the stressors that first brought upon the drug use and cause them to relapse. Returning back to the same house might bring about old people they use to associate with. They might still be using the drug and the Addict might feel that if they take a smaller amount than before it will not bring back the addiction which is wrong. This is called drug priming. A single exposure

An example could be lowering the heart rate if the person is heading to the part of the house that they use to do drugs at. This state could last for a long time. Once the Addict takes the drug, the body will peak and try to come back down and reach homeostasis. But instead it will crash and start to feel rundown. They are moved back into the cycle of the hedonic value of liking the drug and the positive-incentive value of wanting the drug. The chemical balance in the brain is also changed. The brain conditions the body to need the drug. It causes either less of a receptor or more of a receptor but it never goes back to normal. Pinel explains, “drug exposure leads to the development of adaptive neural changes that produce tolerance by counteracting the drug effect which is drug exposure and after withdrawal, with no drug to counteract them the neural adaptations produce withdrawal effects opposite to the effects of the drug”( 2014: 371). With all thing happening, it will cause the Addict to either return to rehab or continue to use heroin. I would not recommend the Addict to try and use drugs at a new environment. It would most likely lead to