Jornal de Patologia Clínica e Experimental

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Drug Abuse and Perivascular Changes of the Brain

Zogopoulos P, Theocharis S, Kotakidis N, Patsouris E and Agapitos E

Drug abuse is a major health problem worldwide with severe socioeconomic consequences. Numerous drugs are widely abused but most common are heroin, cocaine, amphetamines and cannabis. Various cerebrovascular events associated with drug abuse have been reported in the literature but a systematic study of the perivascular changes occuring in human brains is lacking. We present a post-mortem, comparative, pathology study of the perivascular areas in the brain of drug abusers and healthy controls.