AI Article Synopsis
- Research on the neural basis of drug reward and relapse has not significantly impacted addiction treatments.
- A major oversight is the failure to consider the effects of social exclusion and marginalization in addiction.
- Investigating how these social factors connect to drug-seeking behavior could enhance the clinical relevance of addiction neuroscience.
Article Abstract
Research on the neural substrates of drug reward, withdrawal and relapse has yet to be translated into significant advances in the treatment of addiction. One potential reason is that this research has not captured a common feature of human addiction: progressive social exclusion and marginalization. We propose that research aimed at understanding the neural mechanisms that link these processes to drug seeking and drug taking would help to make addiction neuroscience research more clinically relevant.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5523661 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrn.2016.67 | DOI Listing |
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