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Unwired: A Behavioral and Medical Guide to Healing Addiction: Science, Tools, and Compassion for Clinicians, Families, and Those Ready to Recover
A Behavioral and Medical Guide to Healing Addiction
A Behavioral and Medical Guide to Addiction in the Age of Dopamine
By BCBA Yoandra Gomez Uncu
Why do slot machines, cocaine, TikTok, and shopping all activate the same brain circuits?
Because addiction isn’t just about substances, it’s about reinforcement.
In A Behavioral and Medical Guide to Healing Addiction
, Board Certified Behavior Analyst and former physician Yoandra Gomez Uncu blends neuroscience, medicine, and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) to decode the real mechanics of addiction, both chemical and behavioral.
What Makes This Book Different?
Unlike most addiction books that focus solely on trauma, willpower, or medication, A Behavioral and Medical Guide to Healing Addiction reveals the hidden behavioral patterns that drive both substance and non-substance addictions and gives you visual, actionable tools to break them.
Whether it’s scrolling, gambling, binge eating, or opioids, this book shows you how reinforcement schedules, not moral failures, keep people stuck. And how behavior change, not just medication, can set them free.
Inside, You’ll
The neuroscience of cravings, VR schedules, and relapse
Why traditional medicine struggles with behavioral addictions
Visual tools to map and interrupt reinforcement loops
Case studies, FBA templates, and self-monitoring charts
Strategies for families, teens, and clinicians
Behavioral prevention models for the next generation
Whether you’re a clinician, parent, educator, or someone navigating recovery, Unwired offers a radically new
Addiction is learned, and that means it can be unlearned.
A Behavioral and Medical Guide to Addiction in the Age of Dopamine
By BCBA Yoandra Gomez Uncu
Why do slot machines, cocaine, TikTok, and shopping all activate the same brain circuits?
Because addiction isn’t just about substances, it’s about reinforcement.
In A Behavioral and Medical Guide to Healing Addiction
, Board Certified Behavior Analyst and former physician Yoandra Gomez Uncu blends neuroscience, medicine, and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) to decode the real mechanics of addiction, both chemical and behavioral.
What Makes This Book Different?
Unlike most addiction books that focus solely on trauma, willpower, or medication, A Behavioral and Medical Guide to Healing Addiction reveals the hidden behavioral patterns that drive both substance and non-substance addictions and gives you visual, actionable tools to break them.
Whether it’s scrolling, gambling, binge eating, or opioids, this book shows you how reinforcement schedules, not moral failures, keep people stuck. And how behavior change, not just medication, can set them free.
Inside, You’ll
The neuroscience of cravings, VR schedules, and relapse
Why traditional medicine struggles with behavioral addictions
Visual tools to map and interrupt reinforcement loops
Case studies, FBA templates, and self-monitoring charts
Strategies for families, teens, and clinicians
Behavioral prevention models for the next generation
Whether you’re a clinician, parent, educator, or someone navigating recovery, Unwired offers a radically new
Addiction is learned, and that means it can be unlearned.
92 pages, Paperback
Published June 18, 2025
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