Clues found about betel nut addiction

Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 08:40 in Health & Medicine

For hundreds of millions of people around the world, chewing betel nut produces a cheap, quick high but also raises the risk of addiction and oral cancer. Now, new findings by a University of Florida Health researcher reveal how the nut’s psychoactive chemical works in the brain and suggest that an addiction treatment may already […]

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