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9789057025150

False Messengers : How Addictive Drugs Change the Brain

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  • ISBN13:

    9789057025150

  • ISBN10:

    9057025159

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1999-12-01
  • Publisher: CRC Pr I Llc
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Summary

Sue Rusche is executive director of National Families in Action (NFIA), in Atlanta, Georgia, a drug-prevention organization she co-founded in 1977 to help families prevent drug abuse among children.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Your Brain, Your Mind---Your Choice
1(4)
Current Drug Users---Future Addicts?
5(10)
How the Brain Is Organized
15(16)
How the Parts of the Brain Communicate With Each Other
31(18)
How Addictive Drugs Change the Way Neurons Communicate
49(28)
How Drugs Get Into the Brain---and Out Again
77(16)
Drugs Tell the Brain to Take More Drugs
93(16)
How Drugs Change the Brain to Produce Intoxication, Tolerance, Sensitization, Physical Dependence, and Withdrawal
109(22)
How Drugs Change the Brain to Produce Psychological Dependence, Craving, and Addiction
131(22)
Intervention and Treatment
153(22)
Therapeutic Use of Addictive Drugs: How Can a Bad Drug Be Good?
175(20)
Summing It All Up
195(6)
Epilogue 201(2)
Glossary 203(22)
Index 225

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