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Drug Addiction: Drug Implant for Opioid Addiction Looks Effective
TUESDAY, Oct. 12 (HealthDay News) — Implanting the addiction-treatment drug buprenorphine in people who are opioid-dependent seems to reduce cravings in the short term, researchers say.
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Drug Addiction: A Salty Appetite Linked to Drug Addiction
(Ivanhoe Newswire) — A team of scientists has found that addictive drugs may have hijacked the same nerve cells and connections in the brain that serve a powerful, ancient instinct: the appetite for salt. Their rodent research shows how certain genes are regulated in a part of the brain that controls the equilibrium of salt, water, energy, reproduction and other rhythms – the hypothalamus. The …
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Drug Addiction: Evidence for ‘food addiction’ in humans
( Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior ) Research to be presented at the upcoming annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, suggests that people can become dependent on highly palatable foods and engage in a compulsive pattern of consumption, similar to the behaviors we …
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