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> Tangentially related but they have a history of drug misuse There might be a tighter correlation than it seems. What makes drugs addictive is that they work
by meowfly 4y ago
> Tangentially related but they have a history of drug misuse
There might be a tighter correlation than it seems. What makes drugs addictive is that they work on the dopamine pathways. ADD medications do this directly.
Drug abuse causes damaged memory and executive function because drug use downregulates and sometimes damages dopamine receptors.
> Thus, in addition to reward, addicted individuals can experience severe disruptions in learning (memory, conditioning, habituation), executive function (impulse inhibition, decision making, delayed gratification), cognitive awareness (interoception) and even emotional (mood and stress reactivity) functions.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2948245/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2948245/