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UTEP Study: Propensity to Addiction Starts from First Drug Use Experience

Researcher(s) Keywords:

  1. stress
  2. neuroscience
  3. motivation
  4. impulsivity
  5. behavior
  6. T cells
  7. Jak/STAT signaling
  8. immune diseases
  9. drug development

Featured Researcher(s):

Moschak, Travis
College: Science
Department: Biological Sciences
Kirken, Robert
College: Science
Department: Biological Sciences
UTEP Study: Propensity to Addiction Starts from First Drug Use Experience
Date: December 03, 2024



Consuming addictive substances often involves an unpleasant experience, like using a needle, ingesting a bitter substance or inhaling smoke. These distasteful experiences — known as aversive cues — and our initial reactions to them are pivotal to understanding who will become an addict, said University of Texas at El Paso biologist Travis Moschak, Ph.D.


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