Drug Abuse and Perivascular Changes of the Brain
Received Date: Jun 13, 2016 / Accepted Date: Jun 28, 2016 / Published Date: Jun 29, 2016
Abstract
Drug abuse is a major health problem worldwide with severe socioeconomic consequences. Numerous drugs are widely abused but most common are heroin, cocaine, amphetamines and cannabis. Various cerebrovascular events associated with drug abuse have been reported in the literature but a systematic study of the perivascular changes occuring in human brains is lacking. We present a post-mortem, comparative, pathology study of the perivascular areas in the brain of drug abusers and healthy controls.
Keywords: Drug abuse; Perivascular changes; Brain; Pathology
Citation: Zogopoulos P, Theocharis S, Kotakidis N, Patsouris E, Agapitos E (2016) Drug Abuse and Perivascular Changes of the Brain. J Clin Exp Pathol 6:281. Doi: 10.4172/2161-0681.1000281
Copyright: © 2016 Zogopoulos P, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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