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Stereotactic Neurosurgery for Drug Addiction

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Drug addiction is also known as drug dependence. A committee of experts from WHO defined drug addiction as a mental, and sometimes a physical, state caused by the interaction of the drug with the organism. Individuals addicted to a drug exhibit a compulsive and continuous drug-taking behavior along with other reactions. The aim of these reactions is either to experience euphoria or to avoid the discomfort caused by drug withdrawal. The core feature of addiction is that the addicts know that the behavior is pernicious but they cannot control their intake. Drug addiction includes two parts, physiological dependence (physical dependence) and psychological dependence (psychic dependence). Physiological dependence is a physiological adaptation state caused by repeated drug consumption and displays drug tolerance and withdrawal syndrome. Psychological dependence is the euphoria caused by drug consumption and underlies the need for continuous consumption to experience the euphoria repeatedly. It is the main cause for relapse into drug addiction.

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  1. Center for Functional Neurosurgery, Ruijin Hospital Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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Gao, G., Wang, X. (2015). Stereotactic Neurosurgery for Drug Addiction. In: Sun, B., Salles, A. (eds) Neurosurgical Treatments for Psychiatric Disorders. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9576-0_14

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