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Cocaine Addiction Linked To Voluntary Drug Use And Cellular Memory, Study Shows (Science Daily) |
New research has uncovered a fundamental cellular mechanism that may drive pathological drug-seeking behavior. Rats that voluntarily use cocaine show a persistent cellular memory in the brain’s reward center even after several months of abstinence from the drug, while their involuntary counterparts had no such memory, according to a new study.
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