Rats Getting Tired of Being Cocaine ‘Guinea Pigs’
Looks like lab rats are finally getting tired of being the guinea pigs in drug trials…
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Rats That Get No Kick From Cocaine – Wall Street Journal
Filed under: Cocaine Addiction
Cocaine can change the brain in ways that can be passed on to male offspring, making them less likely to find the drug rewarding or work hard to get it, according to new research on the epigenetics of drug abuse. The study, made public this week …
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Smoking primes the brain for cocaine addiction: Study – News-Medical.Net
Filed under: Cocaine Addiction
According to the latest research smoking tobacco may increase the chances of someone abusing cocaine later in life by priming the brain to be more receptive to the Class A drug. The study comes from the National Institute on Drug Abuse in …
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Fatty Foods Addictive as Cocaine in Growing Body of Science – Businessweek
Filed under: Cocaine Addiction
They can hijack the brain in ways that resemble addictions to cocaine, nicotine and other drugs. “The data is so overwhelming the field has to accept it,” said Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. “We are finding …
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- Rats That Get No Kick From Cocaine (blogs.wsj.com)
- Cocaine Addiction Treatment Using Dopamine Studied (signofcocaineuse.com)
