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Cocaine users have impaired ability to predict loss
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-02/tmsh-cuh013015.php
“Cocaine addicted individuals may continue their habit despite unfavorable consequences like imprisonment or loss of relationships because their brain circuits responsible for predicting emotional loss are impaired, according to a study conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published today in The Journal of Neuroscience.”
Drugs and the Brain
https://www.coursera.org/course/drugsandbrain
“The neuroscience of drugs for therapy, for prevention, and for recreation. Drug addiction and drug abuse. You’ll learn the prospects for new generations of medications in neurology, psychiatry, aging, and treatment of substance abuse.”
Drugs Scheduling
http://www.dea.gov/druginfo/ds.shtml
“Drugs, substances, and certain chemicals used to make drugs are classified into five (5) distinct categories or schedules depending upon the drug’s acceptable medical use and the drug’s abuse or dependency potential.”
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