Cocaine_Addiction

Cocaine Addiction Describe the manner in which cocaine is said to stimulate the brain and discuss how this action contributes to the rapid establishment of addiction' As defined by the American Psychiatric Association, addiction is a "chronically relapsing disorder that is characterized by three major elements: compulsion to seek and take the drug, loss of control in limiting intake, and emergence of a negative emotional state when access to the drug is prevented" . This disorder results from the repeated use of a drug over a prolonged period of time, causing physical changes in the brain. Perhaps the most addictive of drugs is cocaine. Cocaine acts on the mesoaccumbens dopamine pathway of the midbrain. This part of the brain is commonly referred to dopamine, cocaine, brain, receiving, pathway, neuron, drug, transporters, transmitting, reuptake, disorder, cell, binds, addiction, time, thus, three, take, synapse, stimulated, stimulate, state, someone, sex, seek, said, reward, results, result, repeated, releases, relapsing, referred, receptors, rapid