Flipping The Brain's Addiction Switch Without Drugs

Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 20:28 in Health & Medicine

Researchers investigating how the brain becomes drug dependent have now implicated a naturally occurring protein, a dose of which allowed them to get rats hooked with no drugs at all. The finding could suggest ways to medically counteract the effects of drug addiction.

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