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Montesinos, Jorge and Montagud-Romero, Sandra and Núñez, Cristina (2022) Editorial: Unraveling vulnerability factors in addiction drug use and potential treatments. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16, 958492. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.958492.

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Addiction is defined as a gradual mental disorder that progresses from social use into a compulsion to take the drug, which results in frequent relapses (Anderson and Hearing, 2019). This progression has been demonstrated to be a consequence of a variety of risk factors, including genetic, epigenetic, sociological, and developmental elements (Anderson and Hearing, 2019). These vulnerabilities are associated with drug-induced neuroadaptations in several brain neurocircuitries, some of them common for all kinds of addictive substances and population while others are drug- or even individual-specific (Everitt and Robbins, 2016). Therefore, only a low percentage of the population that ever uses drugs develop the illness (Everitt and Robbins, 2016).....


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