The Neurobiology of Cocaine Addiction
From Bench to Bedside
- 146 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
With the use of crack on the rise in American cities, there is more need than ever to understand the biological, environmental, and social factors behind cocaine addiction, as well as the pharmacological properties of cocaine that make it such an addictive drug. The Neurobiology of Cocaine Addiction helps clinicians and researchers analyze research findings and their relevance to the clinical treatment of cocaine dependency. To do this, it looks at the whole spectrum of cocaine use, from trends in cocaine-involved deaths, hospital emergencies, arrests, and treatment admissions to the specific impact the drug has on brain function. The book reports on important findings from positron emission tomography (PET) and a "binge" pattern cocaine administration mode. This will enable you to improve your understanding of how cocaine alters the pleasure/reward system of the brain and creates new instinctual needs that displace the inherent instinctual needs of hunger and sex.By reading The Neurobiology of Cocaine Addiction, you will sharpen your knowledge of the basic actions of cocaine, the factors related to daily cocaine use, the neurobiological basis of addictive diseases, and drug-induced alterations in normal physiology. You will also learn about:
- the coexistence of cocaine and heroin addiction
- cocaine's disruption of the endogenous opioid system
- QEEG and how it can play a potentially useful role in drug development and planning
- hypotheses of sensitization in the pathophysiology of cocaine dependence
- factors that predict daily cocaine use among patients in a methadone maintenance program
- abnormalities in brain function that persist for up to six months after last cocaine use
- patterns of cocaine use
- the importance of prospective data analysis and the limitations of a self-selective study groupClinicians, researchers, psychiatrists, and other professionals in chemical dependency and narcotics rehabilitation will turn the last page of The Neurobiology of Cocaine Addiction with a better understanding of cocaine's addictive qualities and the characteristics of the individuals who become addicted to it. You will see what headway has been made in research at some of the nation's top laboratories, but you will also see what remains to be done. Hopefully, you will find where you can make a contribution either at the practical level, the research level, or both.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- frontmatter chapter1
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Editorial
- Cocaine Trends and Other Drug Trends in New York City, 1986–1994
- Daily Cocaine Use Patterns: Effects of Contextual and Psychological Variables
- Neurometric QEEG Studies of Crack Cocaine Dependence and Treatment Outcome
- Cocaine Addiction: Hypothesis Derived from Imaging Studies with PET
- Cocaine, Dopamine and the Endogenous Opioid System
- Pattern of Cocaine Use in Methadone-Maintained Individuals Applying for Research Studies
- Selective Guide to Current Reference Sources on Topics Discussed In this Issue
- Index
- Backmatter chapter1