Biological components of substance abuse and addiction
Material type: TextPublication details: Honolulu University Press of the Pacific 2004Description: vi, 61pISBN:- 1-4102-1686-1
- WM 270 .U55 2004
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Examines biological factors that contribute to substance abuse and addiction. Discusses the activities that take place in the brain as a result of taking drugs of abuse over a long period, and the part a person's biological make up plays in their reaction to a particular drug. Presents the effects of drugs of abuse on the user, including the withdrawal effects.
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