{"title":"Sleep debt-induced anxiety and addiction to substances of abuse: A narrative review","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.pbb.2024.173874","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Substance Use Disorder (SUD) has been conceptualized as an outcome of a dysregulated reward system. However, individuals with SUD suffer from anxiety with an intensity depending on the abstinence period length. This review discusses the role of anxiety as a major contributor to the initiation and perpetuation of SUD, and its dependence on an up-regulated defense-antireward system. In addition, it is discussed that sleep debt, and its psychosocial consequences, promote anxiety, contributing to SUD generation and maintenance. Healthy sleep patterns can be disrupted by diverse medical conditions and negative psychosocial interactions, resulting in accumulated sleep debt and anxiety. Within this narrative review, we discuss the interplay between the motivation-reward and defense-antireward systems, framing the progression from recreational drug use to addiction. This interplay is nuanced by sleep debt-induced anxiety and its psychosocial consequences as contributory vulnerability factors in the genesis of addiction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":19893,"journal":{"name":"Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.3000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior","FirstCategoryId":"102","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091305724001680","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Substance Use Disorder (SUD) has been conceptualized as an outcome of a dysregulated reward system. However, individuals with SUD suffer from anxiety with an intensity depending on the abstinence period length. This review discusses the role of anxiety as a major contributor to the initiation and perpetuation of SUD, and its dependence on an up-regulated defense-antireward system. In addition, it is discussed that sleep debt, and its psychosocial consequences, promote anxiety, contributing to SUD generation and maintenance. Healthy sleep patterns can be disrupted by diverse medical conditions and negative psychosocial interactions, resulting in accumulated sleep debt and anxiety. Within this narrative review, we discuss the interplay between the motivation-reward and defense-antireward systems, framing the progression from recreational drug use to addiction. This interplay is nuanced by sleep debt-induced anxiety and its psychosocial consequences as contributory vulnerability factors in the genesis of addiction.
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Pharmacology Biochemistry & Behavior publishes original reports in the areas of pharmacology and biochemistry in which the primary emphasis and theoretical context are behavioral. Contributions may involve clinical, preclinical, or basic research. Purely biochemical or toxicology studies will not be published. Papers describing the behavioral effects of novel drugs in models of psychiatric, neurological and cognitive disorders, and central pain must include a positive control unless the paper is on a disease where such a drug is not available yet. Papers focusing on physiological processes (e.g., peripheral pain mechanisms, body temperature regulation, seizure activity) are not accepted as we would like to retain the focus of Pharmacology Biochemistry & Behavior on behavior and its interaction with the biochemistry and neurochemistry of the central nervous system. Papers describing the effects of plant materials are generally not considered, unless the active ingredients are studied, the extraction method is well described, the doses tested are known, and clear and definite experimental evidence on the mechanism of action of the active ingredients is provided.