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- Title
Role of Environment in Addiction Probed.
- Authors
Kuehn, Bridget M.
- Abstract
The article looks at animal research that is helping to show the role of environmental factors in addiction. Having a less stressful, more privileged environment may provide a bit of protection from addiction or from relapse during recovery. Scientists have used brain imaging techniques to show that environmental factors have effects on brain receptors known to be altered by drug abuse. This provides a possible molecular basis for addiction and suggests possible targets for treatment. Michael A. Nader and colleagues studied the interactions between cocaine use by cynomolgus monkeys and the stressors the animals encounter living in a hierarchical social group. The researchers measured the dopamine receptors in the monkeys.
- Subjects
ADDICTIONS; SUBSTANCE abuse research; PEOPLE with addiction; DRUG abuse; SOCIAL status; LABORATORY monkeys; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress research; SOCIAL history
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 2005, Vol 294, Issue 23, p2953
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.294.23.2953