Reddit reviews Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction

If I may, let me rephrase your question.

Do people ever experience spontaneous remission from addiction or sudden changes in life habits? Yes, and I believe that yes is uncontroversial, though the quantitative estimates vary.

Can religious conversion be one of the triggers for this? Yes, but our evidence is (to my knowledge) largely anecdotal.

Do we understand how this works? Not really, but people have theories. (Not an endorsement.)

Epistemic status: pretty iffy, but I did spend a little time in grad school studying this. Also I know a few people IRL who had an experience like this.

You should also check out Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction

It puts forth the theory of addiction as a learning disorder. Very interesting take on the matter.

It's just a short article promoting her book, which does seem to have a Notes section with references: https://www.amazon.com/Unbroken-Brain-Revolutionary-Understanding-Addiction/dp/1250055822

>är det inte lite så att vi borde titta på en mer generell lösning på missbruk?

För detta krävs ju att man faktiskt intresserar sig för främmande perspektiv.

T.ex.:

• Hur blir man narkoman? : och hur hindrar vi det?
  
  
• The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease
  
  
• (Q&A - The Neuroscience of Addiction - with Marc Lewis)
  
  
• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
  
  
• (The Power of Addiction and The Addiction of Power: Gabor Maté at TEDxRio+20)
  
  
• Globalization of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit
  
  
• Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
  
  
• (Drug Addiction Is a Learning Disorder, says Maia Szalavitz)