Dr. Earley will present the neurophysiology of one important and overlooked recovery experience: Addiction Memory. When a patient begins the journey into recovery from an addiction of any kind, effective cravings management is the critical for sustaining that recovery. Despite this fact, addiction treatment does not do enough to train addicts and alcoholics how to manage their cravings. Learn about the different sub-type of addiction cravings and new techniques for cravings management. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of how the experience of addiction entrains neural circuits to ensure relapse and, most importantly, how to rewire the addicted brain to prevent relapse.

Objectives:
• describe the sub-types of addiction craving;
• discuss the difference and neurophysiological correlates of short term, long term and emotion-bound memory;
• Identify how the experience of addiction encodes memories in each of these memory circuits.