Abstract
A Schematic Overview of Addiction: Molecular Effects of Cocaine, Methamphetamine and Morphine on Limbic Neurons
Highlights
Illegal drug consumption is a serious growing global problem today
The electrical stimulation of some subcortical structures, such as the nucleus accumbens (NA), the lateral hypothalamus, and the ventral tegmental area (VTA), have been proven to induce strong behaviors that are associated with motivations in animals
Central nervous system (CNS) stimulants, such as cocaine, amphetamine, methamphetamine increase the neurotransmitter concentrations by various mechanisms; once more neurotransmitters, such as dopamine and norepinephrine, stay longer in the synaptic cleft in certain areas, they increase the formation of action potentials, and increase the synaptic transmission
Summary
Illegal drug consumption is a serious growing global problem today. Most of these psychoactive drugs do give extreme harms to the health of people, and creates huge criminal problems which ruin many families and lives as well as inducing other social catastrophes. Drug cartels are buying many corrupted government officials and law enforcement agencies Under these circumstances enforcement and policing the social systems are only serving the drug Lords and cartels. Another 2017-academic study among 115 000 people revealed that the actual numbers are far more serious than the UNUDOC report as seen in the below plot [2]; (Figure). How should we treat drug addiction and other health problems induced along with the drug abuse?
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