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Opiate addiction and cocaine addiction: underlying molecular neurobiology and genetics.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 1 Oct 2012
Kreek Mary Jeanne, Levran Orna, Reed Brian, Schlussman Stefan D, Zhou Yan, Butelman Eduardo R
Abstract excerpt
Addictive diseases, including addiction to heroin, prescription opioids, or cocaine, pose massive personal and public health costs. Addictions are chronic relapsing diseases of the brain caused by drug-induced direct effects and persisting neuroadaptations at the epigenetic, mRNA, neuropeptide, neurotransmitter, or protein levels. These neuroadaptations, which can be specific to drug type, and their resultant...
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