Culture, Economics and Drugs Addiction

The economics of addiction

Culture , Languages and Economics

Amsterdam: Elsevier, forthcoming. " If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. " (Attributed to Nelson Mandela)

Socioeconomic Factors Affecting Adolescent and Youth Addiction to Synthetic Drugs

The present study was conducted to investigate the social status of addicts in Birjand City, Iran. This research was carried out by using the survey method. The research population included all adolescents and young people who were addicted to narcotics since the beginning or have turned to synthetic drugs before the age of 30. The samples were selected using the available sampling method. A re...

Drugs and addiction: an introduction to epigenetics.

Addiction is a debilitating psychiatric disorder, with a complex aetiology involving the interaction of inherited predispositions and environmental factors. Emerging evidence suggests that epigenetic alterations to the genome, including DNA methylation and histone modifications, are important mechanisms underlying addiction and the neurobiological response to addictive substances. In this revie...

Drug addiction: Knockout mice and dirty drugs

The addictive drugs cocaine and amphetamine stimulate locomotion and provide behavioral reward. They have multiple molecular sites of action, of which those on sodiumand chloride-dependent neurotransmitter transporters are thought to be particularly important [1,2]. Both drugs bind to the plasma-membrane transporters for dopamine, norepinephrine and serotonin, inhibiting reuptake into neurons o...