Analysis and study of the mechanism of narcotic addiction and withdrawal

Heliyon. 2024 Feb 27;10(5):e26957. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e26957. eCollection 2024 Mar 15.

Abstract

Narcotic drugs refer to drugs that have anesthetic effects on the central nervous system, and they easily produce physical dependence and mental dependence and can be addictive due to continuous use, abuse or unreasonable use. In this paper, bioinformatics and data analysis and mining techniques were used to analyze the methylation differences in transcriptional and clinical data of narcotic addiction in public databases, to explore the mechanism of narcotic addiction, and to mine some norepinephrine drugs. This study confirmed the possibility of using norepinephrine as an auxiliary drug for drug addiction rehabilitation. In addition, we also conducted a similar analysis on the addiction of three drugs. The results showed that the differences in the body caused by the ingestion of opiates and cocaine were significantly greater than those caused by the ingestion of methamphetamine.

Keywords: Differentially methylated expression analyses; Drug addiction; Norepinephrine; Withdrawal reaction.