Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Drug Abuse

Drug abuse, also termed substance use disorder, is the harmful or hazardous use of psychoactive substances, whether illicit drugs, alcohol, or misused medicines, leading to physical and psychological dependence, tolerance, and impaired control over use. It produces wide-ranging harm to physical and mental health and…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 95× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Drug abuse, also termed substance use disorder, is the harmful or hazardous use of psychoactive substances, whether illicit drugs, alcohol, or misused medicines, leading to physical and psychological dependence, tolerance, and impaired control over use. It produces wide-ranging harm to physical and mental health and disrupts relationships, education, employment, and public safety, with neurobiological changes in reward, motivation, and stress circuitry sustaining compulsive use. Effective response combines prevention, screening, evidence-based treatment, and recovery support. Research relevant to this area examines drug abuse among street children, trends and inducing factors for illicit drug use, acceptance-and-commitment therapy for addiction-susceptible adolescents in cyberspace, hopelessness and despair in psychiatric inpatients, the pineal hypothesis for drug dependence, the psychopharmacology of agents such as 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine, and the mental-health consequences of quarantine and social isolation. The journal publishes peer-reviewed work, grouped here under drug-resistant pathogen research and related clinical fields, addressing the epidemiology, behavioral determinants, neurobiology, and treatment of substance misuse, connecting studies of vulnerable populations, psychological intervention, and dependence mechanisms to the prevention and management of drug abuse and its individual and societal consequences.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2018

Drug Abuse among Street Children

Muhammed Bah YahyaCorresponding author
University of The Gambia, School of Arts and Sciences, Brikama Campus, The Gambia, West Africa
Exact topic Clinical Research In HIV AIDS And Prevention Cited by 52 doi:10.14302/issn.2324-7339.jcrhap-18-2291
2018

The Pineal Hypothesis for Drug Dependence

Crespi FrancescoCorresponding author
Biology, GSK Verona, Italy
Exact topic International Physiology Journal Cited by 2 doi:10.14302/issn.2578-8590.ipj-18-2524

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 95 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Drug Abuse, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Drug Resistant Pathogen Research.

Journal editorial board
Maria Isabel Veiga · Portugal Eva Sapi · United States ZHUO WANG · United States

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