The body can become part of the cue
See how an internal drug state may become learned information—and where the evidence stops.
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The context of addiction may exist partly inside the body. This new bilingual Flow Hijacked finding explains how drug-related internal states may act as conditioned stimuli, discriminative stimuli or occasion setters—and why stimulus properties are not the same as reinforcement. It keeps the largely preclinical evidence, clinical questions and still-untested hypotheses separate.
https://flowhijacked.com/new-findings/interoception-addiction-peart-murray-2026
Flow Hijacked has published a new bilingual finding on Peart and Murray’s 2026 review, ‘What’s next for interoception and addiction?’ It examines how bodily drug states can acquire distinct learning functions; connects candidate vagal, brainstem and insular signalling with motivational circuitry; and asks what changes when internal state is treated as part of addiction’s learned context. The finding is free, noncommercial, educational and not a treatment service.
https://flowhijacked.com/new-findings/interoception-addiction-peart-murray-2026
