The Causes of Drug Abuse
Investigations show that some alcoholics begin to drink due to social pressures or in response to stressing situations in their lives. Since the drinking behavior is initiated, its fixation is...
View ArticleThe Chemical Changes Induced by Drugs in the Brain
Certain characteristics seem to be common to all abuse-inducing drugs:The craving is similar to all those that produce dependence, although different drug groups show different physiological and...
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Drug Abuse: The Alcohol
Alcohol is a multiple-action depressor of the Central Nervous System, and the depression caused by it is dose-dependent. Although alcohol is mainly used because of its stimulating action, this action...
View ArticlePsychostimulants: The Amphetamines and Cocaine
The psychostimulants is a group of drugs with differing structures and common actions such as increased motor activity and lessening of sleep necessity. These drugs decrease fatigue, induce euphoria...
View ArticleThe Hallucinogens
Hallucinogenic or "psychedelic" drugs have the capacity to induce hallucinations without delusion.LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) became the hallucinogenic drug prototype due to its widespread use, as...
View ArticleMarijuana and Hashish
The active principle of marijuana and hashish, D 9 cannabinol (THC), seems to be accountable for the drugs' central affects. Both forms are prepared from the leaves of a plant, Cannabis sativa.THC is...
View ArticleClinical Manifestations of Drug Abuse
For the sake of brevity we shall not discuss in this paper the clinical manifestations induced by each drug or drug-group. We shall only present here the general classification used by the DSM-IV for...
View ArticleThe Treatment of Drug Abuse
The National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) definition of drug addiction as "a chronic relapsing disease of the brain, which is expressed in behavioral ways and occur in a social context", expresses...
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Drug Abuse
Drug AbuseAncient literary and religious texts show that, at all times and places, human beings deliberately used (and abused of) substances fitted to modify the nervous system functions, inducing...
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