Neurochemistry of abused drugs
By: [edited by] Steven B. Karch.
Contributors: Karch, Steven B.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781420054415
Subjects: Drugs of abuse -- Pathophysiology; Drugs of abuse -- Physiological effect; Neurochemistry; Neurotoxicology; Substance-Related Disorders -- physiopathology; Brain -- drug effects; Neurotoxicity Syndromes -- etiology; Substance-Related Disorders -- complications
Notes: "A CRC title."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The dopamine transporter and addiction / William M. Meil and John W. Boja; title: Neurochemistry of nicotine dependence / Darlene H. Brunzell; title: Neurochemical substrates of habitual tobacco smoking / Irina Esterlis, Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin, and Julie K. Staley; title: Neurochemical and neurobehavioral consequences of methamphetamine abuse / Colin N. Haile; title: Neurochemical adaptations and cocaine dependence / Kelly P. Cosgrove and Julie K. Staley; title: Neuropsychiatric consequences of chronic cocaine abuse / Deborah C. Mash; title: Neurobiology of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA or "ecstasy") / Michael H. Baumann and Richard B. Rothman.