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Early misuse of painkillers leads to addiction?
Posted on September 11, 2008
More research suggesting that opiate addiction can be aquired by early exposure:No child aspires to a lifetime of addiction. But their brains might. In new research to appear online in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology this week, Rockefeller University researchers reveal that adolescent brains exposed to the painkiller Oxycontin can sustain lifelong and permanent changes in their reward system changes that increase the drug s euphoric properties and make such adolescents more vulnerable to the drug s effects later in adulthood.The research, led by Mary Jeanne Kreek, head of the Labor...
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