College/University/Graduate School paper Help: Describe the drug of abuse, the symptoms it causes, and its mechanism of actions
Drugs of abuse affect one of three steps of synaptic transmission, elimination, reuptake, and degradation. Please include the following in your response.
· Identify a drug of abuse that selectively targets each one of these steps.
· Describe the drug of abuse, the symptoms it causes, and its mechanism of actions (i.e. how it impairs synaptic transmission). Please include what neurotransmitter it affects.
