Interaction Between Exposure to Neurotoxicants and Drug Abuse
نویسندگان
چکیده
Humans are continuously exposed to a variety of environmental neurotoxicants. Over the past 30 years, at least 100,000 chemicals, including pesticides, food additives, drugs, and cosmetics, have been registered for commercial use in the United States (Muir & Howard, 2006). Twenty years ago, about 750 chemicals had shown neurotoxic effects in laboratory animals (Anger, 1984). Actually, the number is thought to exceed a thousand, although no authoritative estimate of the real number of neurotoxicants is available (Grandjeand & Landrigan, 2006).
منابع مشابه
Drug and Solvent Abuse Among Ahwaz's Elderlies
Objectives: There are researches to point epidemiology of addiction to drugs, chemical and solvent abuse in elderlies. Drug and Solvent abuse is considered as one of these addictions. This study was point to chemical abuse among elderly population of Ahwaz an Iranian city during year of 2007. Methods & Materials: Research method is description-exploration with use to questionnaire, clinical ...
متن کاملRole of Feeling of Loneliness and Emotion Regulation Difficulty on Drug Abuse
Introduction: The Risk behaviors such as drug abuse are prevalent anxiously in youth. Thus investigation and recognition of risk behaviors are important. The aim of the present study is to investigate on relationship between loneliness and the difficulty in emotional regulation with drug abuse. Materials and Methods: this research was descriptive- correlation. The sample was comprised of 452...
متن کاملMeconium and neurotoxicants: searching for a prenatal exposure timing.
BACKGROUND Exposure to organochlorine compounds (OCs) has been a subject of interest in recent years, given their potential neurotoxicity. Meconium is easily available and accumulates neurotoxicants and/or metabolites from the 12th week of gestation. AIMS To determine whether neurotoxicants, specifically OCs, could be detected in serially collected meconium, and to compare the results with th...
متن کاملP152: Neurotoxicants and Mechanisms Neurodegenerative in Acrylamide
Many chemicals with broad industrial, pharmaceutical and agricultural application produce a neurotoxic syndrome in humans and experimental animals involving weight loss, skeletal muscle weakness and ataxia. Neurotoxicity is defined as a structural change or a functional alteration of the nervous system resulting from exposure to a chemical, biological or physical agent. Neurotoxicity including ...
متن کاملSports Activity and Smoking, Alcohol and Drug Abuse among Students
Background. Despite the research being accomplished so far, there is no clear answer to the question that "Does sports help to prevent and reducing the abuse of drug, alcohol, and smoking in young people as it believed in public". Objective(s). The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between sports activity and experience of smoking, alcohol and drug abuse among...
متن کامل