Socially isolated rats are more vulnerable to addiction, report researchers

Wednesday, January 23, 2013 - 19:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Rats that are socially isolated during a critical period of adolescence are more vulnerable to addiction to amphetamine and alcohol. Amphetamine addiction is also harder to extinguish in the socially isolated rats.

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