Stimulants craving

Cocaine/ Immediately following binge Stimulant craving, accompanied... 

Emerging from the mood and energy dysfunction, craving or high urge for the stimulant returns, frequently leading to recidivism (Ellinwood 1973). 

A number of medications have been studied to alleviate symptoms of stimulant withdrawal and the intense craving that may accompany it, but inconsistent results across controlled trials preclude any recommendations for their routine use. Patients with stimulant use disorders should be referred to substance abuse treatment because of the high risk for continued use either during or immediately following stimulant withdrawal. 

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However, nicotine also has been shown to stimulate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in rodents, leading to elevated plasma levels of adrenocorticotropic hormone and corticosterone (Andersson et al. 1983 Cam et al. 1979), which are known to exert a wake-promoting effect. However, studies in humans have shown that only intense smoking is able to activate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (Gilbert et al. 1992 Kirschbaum et al. 1992). Nicotine patches, in addition to their use in nicotine suppression and craving, have been used to explore the relationship between sleep and nicotine in human... 

Reward Therapy. A similar (yet nonspecific) approach is to use a medication that stimulates the brain s reward centers. Reward medications usually do not work in quite the same way as the substance of abuse however, the net effect in the final common pathway (i.e., the reward centers) may be the same. For the most part, these reward centers are activated by either dopamine or endogenous opioid agonists. One common feature of most abused drugs is that they stimulate these reward centers. This lies at the heart of their addictive potential. Some attempts have been made to use medications that activate these reward centers in place of the abused substance. The hypothesis is that the addict will have less intense craving for his/her preferred substance of abuse in the presence of these other agents. This is, of course, a relatively nonspecific approach that could theoretically be used to treat the abuse of many different substances. It has not yet, however, demonstrated any utility in the treatment of substance abuse. 

Another major safety concern in the treatment of youth with SUD is abuse of prescribed medications. Particular controversy has arisen around the use of stimulant medication in youth with SUD and ADHD. In one controlled study of adults, the use of methyl-phenidate (Ritalin) did not increase cocaine use or craving for cocaine (Grabowski et ah, 1997), suggesting that the abuse potential of stimulants may be overestimated. Riggs et al. (1996) did not report any difficulties with abuse when administering pemoline (Cylert) to a group of adolescents with SUD and ADHD. While Riggs and associates have observed that... 

Withdrawal symptoms, more commonly seen in individuals who chronically abuse high doses of stimulants, include increased sleep with vivid dreams, increased appetite, fatigue, and drug craving. 

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