NIDAs mission is to bring the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction. Photo courtesy of NIDA. Photo courtesy of the NIDA Web site. From A Slide Teaching Packet: The Brain and the
Actions of Cocaine, Opiates, Illustration used with permission, courtesy of Lydia V. Kibiuk and the Society for Neuroscience. Photo courtesy of the NIDA Web
site. From A Slide Teaching Packet: The Brain and the Actions of Cocaine, Opiates, and Photo courtesy of the NIDA Web site. From A Slide Teaching Packet: The Brain and the Actions of Cocaine, Opiates, and Marijuana.
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Your Brain on Drugs 1-2 Min 3-4
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10-20 20-30 Photo courtesy of Nora Volkow, Ph.D. Mapping cocaine binding sites in human and baboon brain in vivo. Fowler JS, Volkow ND, Wolf AP, Dewey SL, Schlyer DJ, Macgregor RIR, Hitzemann R, Logan J, Bendreim B, Gatley ST.
Your Brain After Drugs Normal Cocaine Abuser (10 days) Cocaine Abuser (100
days) Photo courtesy of Nora Volkow, Ph.D. Volkow ND, Hitzemann R, Wang C-I, Fowler IS, Wolf AP, Dewey SL. Long-term frontal brain metabolic changes in cocaine abusers. Synapse 11:184-190, 1992; Volkow ND, Fowler JS, Wang G-J, Hitzemann R, Logan J, Schlyer D, Dewey 5, Wolf AP. Decreased dopamine D2 receptor availability is associated with reduced frontal metabolism in cocaine abusers. Synapse 14:169-177, 1993. Drugs Have Long-term Consequences
Photo courtesy of NIDA from research conducted by Melega WP, Raleigh MJ, Stout DB, Lacan C, Huang SC, Phelps ME. The Memory of Drugs Front of Brain
Amygdala not lit up Amygdala activated Back of Brain Nature Video
Photo courtesy of Anna Rose Childress, Ph.D. Cocaine Video The good news is Drug Abuse is a preventable behavior
and Drug Addiction is a treatable disease tesy of Partnership for a Drug Free America. Photo courtesy of NIDA. Is it
worth the risk? Visit NIDAs Web Site at: http://www.drugabuse.gov Photo courtesy of NIDA
Have you changed your mind? Photo courtesy of NIDA. If You Change Your Mind. Student magazine. NIH Publication No. 93-3474, 1993.
