witchlinblue
03-27-2006, 08:21 PM
Trigger for Cocaine Addiction Found
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Experiments in rats have linked the craving for cocaine to a specific molecule that appears to train the brain to crave the drug.
The finding could lead to addiction treatments that would block this biologic trigger, experts say.
read whole article (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=59866)
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Experiments in rats have linked the craving for cocaine to a specific molecule that appears to train the brain to crave the drug.
The finding could lead to addiction treatments that would block this biologic trigger, experts say.
read whole article (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=59866)