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SUMMARY:Social deprivation\, coping and drugs: a bad cocktail in the COVID
 -19 era: evidence from preclinical studies - Dr. David Belin
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CONTACT:Arielle Bennett-Lovell
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 IaXkZjXsG5fXTaex6H \n\nThe factors that underlie an individual’s vulnera
 bility to switch from controlled\, recreational drug use to addiction are 
 not well understood. I will discuss the evidence in rats that in individua
 ls housed in enriched conditions\, the experience of drugs in the relative
  social and sensory impoverishment of the drug taking context\, and the as
 sociated change in behavioural traits of resilience to addiction\, exacerb
 ate the vulnerability to develop compulsive drug intake. I will further di
 scuss the importance of the acquisition of alcohol drinking as a mechanism
  to cope with distress as a factor of exacerbated vulnerability to develop
  compulsive alcohol intake. Together these results demonstrate that experi
 ential factors in the drug taking context\, which can be substantially dri
 ven by social isolation\, shape the vulnerability to addiction.\n
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