Drug Addiction, Dysregulation of Reward, and Allostasis

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Summary

The view that addiction is the pathology that results from an allostatic mechanism using the circuits established for natural rewards provides a realistic approach to identifying the neurobiological factors that produce vulnerability to addiction and relapse.

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Published
2001-02-01
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Keywords

Allostasis, Addiction, Psychology, Neuroscience, Neurochemical

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