Hunting for the brain's opioid addiction switch

Tuesday, May 31, 2016 - 12:01 in Health & Medicine

New research is contributing to a better understanding of the ways opiate-class drugs modify brain circuits to drive the addiction cycle. The identification of these opiate-induced changes offers the best hope for developing more effective pharmacological targets and therapies to prevent or reverse the effect of opiate exposure and addiction.

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