Wayne State Uni Study Heroin Users For Links Between Stress And Drug Use

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EurekaAlert.org
By Julie O'Connor
Wayne State University - Office Of The Vice President For Research
10/25/2011


Wayne State University Study Of Heroin Users To Examine Links Between Stress, Drug Use

A Wayne State University researcher is using a three-year, $1.55 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health to learn more about the links between stress and drug use by applying behavioral economics.

Mark Greenwald, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral neurosciences in the School of Medicine and director of the Substance Abuse Research Division, will study a group of heroin users to see how pharmacologically induced stress affects their decisions to seek money or drugs when given the choice. Over the next three years, 30 participants will be selected from more than 100 heroin-addicted volunteers who currently are not being treated; then, they will undergo extensive screening.
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http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/wsu--wsu102511.php
 
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I'm curious, what sort of "anti-stress medications" do they imagine might be useful to help addicts? Nothing recreational I'd bet. So what sort of things does that leave us, anti-depressants? Beta-blockers to manage only physical symptoms?

I mean, I fully support the study and development of new treatment techniques, of course. One can't help but wonder, though.
 
glucocorticoid antagonists... maybe some day in the far future 11beta-HSD1 (there is a link between memory and opioids, areas that process novel learning have denser levels of endogenous opioids)... but my money would be on adrenalin blockers... I like clonadine, it helps me sleep and it's a decent neuroprotective agent. That's just me though.
 
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