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Drug addiction is a chronic brain disease characterised by a compulsion to seek drugs, a loss of control with respect to drug consumption and negative emotional states, including increased anxiety and irritability during withdrawal. Central vasopressin (AVP) and its receptors are involved in controlling social behaviour, anxiety and reward, all of which are altered by drugs of abuse. Hypothalamic...
Chronic use of drugs of abuse results in neurochemical, morphological and behavioral plasticity that underlies the emergence of compulsive drug seeking and vulnerability to relapse during periods of attempted abstinence. Identifying and reversing addiction‐relevant plasticity is seen as a potential point of pharmacotherapeutic intervention in drug‐addicted individuals. Despite considerable advances...
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