Addictive Illegal Drugs: Structural Neuroimaging
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Addictive illegal drugs: structural neuroimaging.
Illegal addictive drugs can lead to functional or structural impairment of the central nervous system. This review provides an overview of the structural imaging findings on CT, MR imaging, and conventional angiography related to chronic and acute abuse of the most commonly abused illegal drugs, including cannabis, organic solvents, and amphetamines and opioids and their respective derivatives....
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Neuroradiology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0195-6108,1936-959X
DOI: 10.3174/ajnr.a1811