Abstract. Drug addiction poses a serious problem to our species. The worry that our significant family might be involved in drug use and are concerned to know how to detect drug use. Examinations of thirty taped EEG recordings were performed. The subjects consist of three group: addictive, methadone treatment (rehabilitation), and control (normal) which 10 subjects for each group. Statistical analysis was performed for the relative frequency of wave bands. The higher average amplitude is obtained from the addiction subjects. In the comparison with the signals source, channels P3 provide slightly higher average amplitude than other channels for all of subjects.
IntroductionDrug addiction poses a serious problem to our species. Consider the disastrous effects caused by the abuse of one of our oldest drugs, alcohol: automobile accidents, fetal alcohol syndrome, cirrhosis of the liver, Korsakoff's syndrome, increased rate of heart disease, and increased rate of intracerebral haemorrhage [1]. Moreover, drug addiction has been associated with a broad range of cognitive deficits in domains, including emotional regulation and motivation, attention and flexibility, working memory, learning, and decision making [2]. For example, cocaine addiction can cause psychotic behavior, brain damage, and death from overdose; and competition for lucrative and illegal markets terrorizes neighborhoods, subverts political and judicial systems, and causes many violent deaths. The drugs stimulate brain mechanisms responsible for positive reinforcement. In addition, most of them also reduce or eliminate unpleasant feelings, some of which are produced by the drugs themselves. What actually seems to happen is that the occurrence of an appetitive stimulus activates a reinforcement mechanism in the brain that increases the likelihood of the most recent response in the present situation. All natural reinforcers that have been studied so far (such as food for a hungry animal, water for a thirsty one, or sexual contact) have one physiological effect in common: They cause the release of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens [3].Perhaps we worry that our significant family might be involved in drug use and are concerned to know how to detect drug use. Regardless of whom the person is and what his or her relationship is to us, it is important to understand how to detect drug use so we can get help for our child, loved one, or business associate. A drug test is a technical analysis of a biological specimen, for example urine, hair, blood, breath, sweat, or oral fluid/saliva to determine the presence or absence of specified parent drugs