Cambios en la respuesta emocional ante estímulos visuales de contenido sexual en adictos a drogas

Effect of Drug Use and Influence of Abstinence on Sexual Functioning in a Spanish Male Drug-Dependent Sample: A Multisite Study

“…Desire was the next area affected by heroin, which was the most detrimental drug for this area despite its low effect size. These results agree with those found by other authors, who observed that heroin users were less stimulated by erotic images than consumers of other drugs and the control population [24]. There seems to be a lack of motivation toward sexual stimuli among opioid users, as if reinforcing stimuli—unconditioned for the normal population—were displaced by stimuli associated to drug use in this population [49,50].…”

“…Desire was the third area most affected by this drug, which supports the findings of Aguilar et al. [24] in speedball users. Finally, differences in arousal were significant but negligible.…”

“…To the best of our knowledge, no previous studies have related alcohol consumption with impaired sexual pleasure. Finally, alcohol has also been associated with inhibited sexual desire [5,11,24,25], which was also found in the present research.…”

“…In general, according to the studies consulted, use of alcohol [6], benzodiazepines [12], cannabis [8,9], cocaine [2,4,11], opioids [21], methamphetamines [22,23], or hallucinogens [8] may improve various areas of sexual functioning—in low doses and/or in the short term attending to individual differences [2,6–9,22,23]. Yet, these effects seem to be short lived, because dose increases and/or length of use have shown detrimental effects on sexual functioning [2,11,12,24–29].…”

Adaptation, Equivalence, and Validation of the Changes in Sexual Functioning Questionnaire-Drugs in a Sample of Drug-Dependent Men

“…These beneficial effects sometimes lead individuals to start to consume a given substance (La Pera et al, 2008), but they are short-lived. An increase in the dose or time of consumption leads to problems in sexual functioning (Aguilar De Arcos et al, 2008;Avila Escribano, Pérez Madruga, Olazabal Ulacia, & López Fidalgo, 2004;Bang-Ping, 2008, 2009Johnson, Phelps, & Cottler, 2004;Peugh & Belenko, 2001;Rosen, 1991;Smith, 2007).…”