Fight, Flight, Fawn, Freeze: Rethinking Substance Use Through a Stress Response Lens
Advancing research on adversity and substance use requires the use of validated measures, the simultaneous assessment of multiple stress responses to capture their interactions, and greater theorization of resistance and fawning/strategic assimilation, which remain underdeveloped and understudied in substance use research.
Authors
- Angel B. Algarin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3518-8245)
- Ji-Young Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1860-3649)
- Xiangming Zhan
Institutions
- University of Phoenix (US)
- University of South Florida (US)
- Phoenix College (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Current Addiction Reports
- Published
- 2026-03-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s40429-026-00723-5
- Primary Topic
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Institutes of Health