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Dr. Sinha Speaking:
All psychostimulants cocaine, opiates, nicotine, alcohol, marijuana, all stimulate or affect the biological stress pathway which we have a hardwired stress pathway in our bodies and brains to modulate mood
And also to alert us to danger and respond to danger and to promote survival and those pathways are actually different for men and women
And this is why it's actually again important to look for sex differences in men and women in response to stress but also in the interaction of why we take a certain drug and then its effects on the stress pathways.