Drug Addiction, Cocaine, Nicotine, Caffeine, Amphetamines, Opioids, THC & Neuroscience | Christian Luscher | 40
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Is There a Difference Between Addiction and Dependency?
There's clearly differences among the dopeminorans, and it depends exactly where they're located in the vental tigmental area. I want to ask you another question about withdrawal and in general. So let's say you get an animal addicted to a substance that it becomes dependent on, and then you take the drug away and the animal goes into withdrawal. If abstinence is maintained, will the circuits in the brain that were underlying the addictive behaviour and dependency naturally sort of revert back to their prior state? There has to be an active, unlearning process there. For the addiction part, it is equally clear that the individuals who have been abstinent for prolonged periods of time still have an
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