Cocaine Addiction Uses Same Brain Paths as Salt Cravings

Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 12:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Drugs such as heroin and cocaine may owe some of their addictive powers to an ancient instinct—our appetite for salt.

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