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3 gru 2012 · Spice abusers can be grouped in three main categories based upon previous drug use: 1) marijuana smokers, 2) occasional drug users seeking to avoid legal complications, and 3) drug-naïve, curious experimenters.
23 wrz 2016 · Spice is not a single drug, but a range of laboratory-made chemicals that mimic the effects of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main psychoactive component of cannabis. Research suggests...
22 mar 2023 · Dr. Hatoum and the research team discovered various molecular patterns underlying addiction, including 19 independent SNPs significantly associated with general addiction risk and 47 SNPs for specific substance disorders among the European ancestry sample.
4 maj 2022 · Collectively, genetic studies are providing persuasive evidence that there is underlying genetic liability that predisposes to both SUDs and chronic pain, depression, and COVID-19. For cardiometabolic disease, there is greater support for a potential causal influence of problematic substance use.
The substance use genetics literature is rich with rodent models of addictive behaviors (e.g. positive reinforcement via self-administration paradigms, withdrawal avoidance and drug-seeking).
The researchers discovered a strong genetic correlation between problematic alcohol use and 138 other conditions, including substance abuse disorders, depression, and schizophrenia. “AUD has many variants across the genome that are involved in the predisposition of this trait, but these variants are not only predisposing to AUD, they are ...
25 wrz 2016 · Spice is not a single drug, but a range of laboratory-made chemicals that mimic the effects of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main psychoactive component of cannabis. Research suggests that Spice and other forms of synthetic cannabis is capable of producing much more intense and prolonged effects at much lower doses than natural cannabis.
