Seeking New Methods to Treat Heroin Addiction
Seeking New Methods to Treat Heroin Addiction
Heroin metabolises rapidly. One widely-held theory has been that heroin passes quickly into the brain where it is converted into morphine, and that what users are actually experiencing are the effects of morphine. As it turns out, however, heroin …
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New study: Porn activates the same addiction centers in the brain as alcohol …
Voon scanned the men's brains as they watched erotic imagery and found that they displayed the same addiction responses as those of alcoholics shown ads for booze, or drug abusers shown images of dealers. “We found greater activity in an area of the …
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Western University scientists discover a novel opiate addiction switch in the …
The Addiction Research Group led by Steven Laviolette of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry was able to identify how exposure to heroin induces a specific switch in a memory molecule in a region of the brain called the basolateral amygdala …
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Pornography Addiction Revealed By Brain Scan, Similar To Alcoholism Or Drug …
The brains of people who are hooked on pornography behave in a similar way to those of alcoholics or drug addicts, a new study has found. Academics from Cambridge University studied people who said they had a problem with the amount of pornography …
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