Editorial Drugs

Editorial: HIV and Illicit Drugs of Abuse

Drugs of abuse plays a major role in increasing the risk of HIV transmission, disease progression, and less adherence to the antiretroviral therapy, which significantly contribute for morbidity and mortality of the HIV infected patients (Anthony et al., 1991; Arnsten et al., 2002). While injection drug use is the second most common route for the HIV transmission, alcohol consumption, smoking, i...

Editorial: structural plasticity induced by drugs of abuse

Citation: Olive MF and Gass JT (2015) Editorial: structural plasticity induced by drugs of abuse. Front. Pharmacol. 6:88. The roots of addiction are often attributed to the ability of repeated drug use to compromise proper functioning of the central nervous system. Drug-induced functional changes in the brain occur on many levels, including altered expression of specific genes via genomic and e...

Editorial TREATMENT OF SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH SURVIVORS: DRUGS VERSUS DEVICE

Patients who survive an episode of sustained ventricular trachycardia (VT) or out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation (VF) are known to have a high recurrence rate of 10% to 20% at 2 years.' Until the early 1990s, the preferred therapy for this high-risk population remained unclear. A variety of therapies have been proposed, including serial drug testing guided by Holter monitor or eletrophysi...

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