Drug Addiction as a Non-monotonic Process: a Multiscale Computational Model

Addiction is considered a “bio-psycho-socialspiritual disorder” [1] for which complete recovery cannot be assured. Although addiction was computationally characterized as a non-reversible process [2, 3], behavioral evidences support the possibility of recovery [4, 5, 6, 7].

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