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Alcoholism, or Reward Deficiency Syndrome, is a very common disease among Americans.

Genetic abnormalities, exposure to a prolonged period of stress, and alcohol or other substance abuse leads to a corruption of the "cascade function". Such a disruption in the interaction between the neurotransmitters results in the opposite of the "reward": feelings of anger, anxiety, and other emotions associated with negativity. It has also been linked with compulsive and impulsive disorders such as alcoholism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Since dopamine has been deemed the most important of all neurotransmitters in the neurological expression of pleasure, it is a defect in the gene that carries this chemical that has been primarily blamed for the incidence of this disorder.

(Source: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/biology/b103/f00/web2/hossain2.html")

"What has spawned a new way of looking at addiction is the fact that many of the potent motivational, and hence addictive, properties of different substances seem to involve a common neurochemical action?" A "relationship between neurotransmitters, their receptors in the brain and addictive action." - Bozarth, director of the Addiction Research Unit in the Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Letters.

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