• DOI:10.1016/J.COBEHA.2016.09.007
Corpus ID: 12493902

Is biological aging accelerated in drug addiction?

@article{Bachi2017IsBA,
  title={Is biological aging accelerated in drug addiction?},
  author={Keren Bachi and S. Sierra and N. Volkow and R. Goldstein and N. Alia-Klein},
  journal={Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences},
  year={2017},
  volume={13},
  pages={34-39}
}

• Keren Bachi, S. Sierra, +2 authors N. Alia-Klein
• Published 2017
• Medicine
• Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Drug-addiction may trigger early onset of age-related disease, due to drug-induced multi-system toxicity and perilous lifestyle, which remains mostly undetected and untreated. We present the literature on pathophysiological processes that may hasten aging and its relevance to addiction, including: oxidative stress and cellular aging, inflammation in periphery and brain, decline in brain volume and function, and early onset of cardiac, cerebrovascular, kidney, and liver disease. Timely detection… Expand

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