Rehabilitation Approaches for Drug Abuse, Addiction and Pediatric Issues

Adolescents--drug abuse and addiction.

Drug taking by young people has been described and debated almost to saturation point by professional and lay people alike. This is not only because of the many connecting professional links in medicine, the law, the social sciences, moral philosophy, psychology, and education, but also because it has a personal impact on every young family in the country. No parent who has the welfare of his c...

Drug Abuse , Addiction and Dependence

drug addiction among parent; facts and approaches

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The nature of addiction and drug rehabilitation

The current bibliography suggests that drug rehabilitation schemes that are based on psychological and social parameters are efficient. While most researchers consider dependency to substances as symptomatic, there is a lot of controversy concerning the nature and consequently the definition of addiction. The presentation will try to discuss the various points of view, taking into consideration...

Genetics’ Influence on Drug Abuse & Addiction Interactions of Endophenotypes & Genotypes

A B S T R A C T “Addiction” is a multifaceted complicated disorder with many interrelated causes, as well as environmental and genetic features. Several hereditary variables that have an effect on these features might work in together to influence vulnerability and the extent of being an addict. Molecular re-sequencing of the latest and formerly researched genes holds a crucial place with regar...

Imaging dopamine's role in drug abuse and addiction.

Dopamine is involved in drug reinforcement but its role in addiction is less clear. Here we describe PET imaging studies that investigate dopamine's involvement in drug abuse in the human brain. In humans the reinforcing effects of drugs are associated with large and fast increases in extracellular dopamine, which mimic those induced by physiological dopamine cell firing but are more intense an...