Drug Addiction || CNS Drug Delivery: Opioid Peptides and the Blood-Brain Barrier

✍ Scribed by Rapaka, Rao S.; Sadée, Wolfgang

• Book ID: 120366036
• Publisher: Springer New York
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 157 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 0387766782
• DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-76678-2_30

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive overview of physiological, biochemical, and genetic pathways underlying drug addiction, and resultant efforts to develop novel treatment strategies dealing with drug addiction and other CNS disorders where the neurophysiological processes overlap, such as treatment of pain. The volume focuses on the translation of fundamental addiction research to a variety of treatments and brings together scientists with wide ranging expertise.