Oxidative Stress and Neuroinflammation as a Pivot in Drug Abuse. A Focus on the Therapeutic Potential of Antioxidant and Anti-Inflammatory Agents and Biomolecules

• Main Authors: Pablo Berríos-Cárcamo (Author), Mauricio Quezada (Author), María Elena Quintanilla (Author), Paola Morales (Author), Marcelo Ezquer (Author), Mario Herrera-Marschitz (Author), Yedy Israel (Author), Fernando Ezquer (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Drug abuse is a major global health and economic problem. However, there are no pharmacological treatments to effectively reduce the compulsive use of most drugs of abuse. Despite exerting different mechanisms of action, all drugs of abuse promote the activation of the brain reward system, with last...