Opiate Addiction and its Confounding Crisis

Berkeley Scientific: the journal of young scientists

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Ashley Joshi

关键词: crisis;    opiates;    addiction;    MOR;    KOR;    buprenorphine;    naltrexone;    methadone;   

DOI  :  10.5070/BS3231042198

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: University of California, Berkeley

【 摘 要 】

Whether taken recreationally or asprescribed, ingested opiates alterour brain chemistry and pave a road topossible addiction. While the opiate crisisas we know it today has only come to theforefront in the last decade, the effects ofopiate abuse on our society can be tracedback to the nineteenth century, when drugssuch as morphine came into mainstreamuse. Due to modern technology and themass production of drugs, opiates are incredibly accessible and widespread in theiruse today. Therefore, educating individualsabout the issue at hand can prevent the crisis of opioid addiction from escalating.

【 授权许可】

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