You tried the apps. The podcasts. The "one day at a time." Maybe you even read the habit book and the loops made sense — but your body still screamed for the chemical, and willpower dissolved like sugar in rain.

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This is the book for when understanding your patterns isn't enough. When your nervous system has been rebuilt around a substance as baseline operating requirement. When the parking lot moment — sitting in your car, engine running, caught between knowing and doing — has become your permanent address.

Unwindology: The Breaking Point is not a book about willpower. It is a field manual for a nervous system that found a chemical shortcut and forgot the way back.

What this book offers

Addiction Under Load maps your situation with precision. The three-category severity system shows you exactly where you are — behavioral dependence, neurochemical dependence with manageable withdrawal, or neurochemical dependence where withdrawal can kill — and routes you to exactly what works there. No guessing. No one-size-fits-all.

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From the fentanyl crisis reshaping opioid mortality to the productivity trap of stimulants that makes quitting feel like losing your edge. From the first documentation of AI companionship as an addiction dimension to the shame that operates as structural load on an already overloaded system — this book covers ground no other recovery text has touched.

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Includes substance-specific routing protocols, medication guidance without stigma, the three-layer recovery model that sequences your path from stabilization through rebuilding to pattern release, global recovery profiles across eight world regions, and practical load audits for every chapter.

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This is not a moral framework. It is a structural one. The question is not "why don't you stop" but what would need to be different for stopping to become possible.