Social modulation of drug use and drug addiction

Validation crisis in animal models of drug addiction: beyond non-disordered drug use toward drug addiction.

In standard drug self-administration settings, animals have no choice than drug use. As a result, serious doubt exists about the interpretation of drug use in experimental animals. Is it symptomatic of an underlying addiction state or merely an expectable response to lack of choice? This incertitude in turn casts a shadow over many behavioral and neurobiological changes that have been well docu...

Drug use and addiction: evolutionary perspective.

Drug use creates a significant amount of harm in modern societies. From an evolutionary perspective, the pervasive use of drugs and the ongoing risk of drug addiction can be explained in terms of the action of drugs on evolved motivational-emotional systems. Addiction arises through interaction of these evolutionarily ancient systems, designed to promote the pursuit of natural rewards, and cont...

Cannabinoid and opioid modulation of impulsive behavior and drug addiction

Occasionally, it happens to all of us: you speak out of turn during a meeting or you make a comment and immediate realize that you shouldn't have said it. Or you buy an expensive pair of shoes even though you actually cannot afford them. Two examples of daily‐live impulsive behavior, and more specifically of impulsive action (acting without forethought) and impulsive choice (preferring immediat...

comparative dna interaction studies of antiviral drug, zidovudine and its complex using different instrumental methods

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RAMADAN AND CARDIOVASCULAR DRUG USE