Pharmacology of drugs of abuse

As shown on the slide, drugs of abuse have a range of different targets and interact with different neurochemical pathways in the brain.

References used on slide:
Purves D, Augustine GJ, Fitzpatrick D, et al. (eds). Neuroscience, 6^th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2018.

Stahl SM. Stahl’s Essential Psychopharmacology. Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Application. 4^th edition. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2013

Volkow ND, Michaelides M, Baler R. The neuroscience of drug reward and addiction. Physiol Rev 2019; 99 (4): 2115–2140.