Key Ingredient in "Bath Salts" to Be Treated Like Cocaine, Heroin

Key ingredient in "bath salts" to be treated like cocaine, heroin
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Containers of bath salts, synthetic stimulants that mimic the effects of traditional drugs like cocaine and speed, sit on a counter at Hemp's Above in Mechanicsburg, Pa. The Canadian government is banning a key ingredient found in the street drug known … Read more on Hamilton Spectator

Morphine and cocaine are yin and yang, when it comes to rewarding your brain
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The scientists were working with mice to surpress the protein brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which would would dampen the effects of stimulants like cocaine. What they found, surprisingly, was that knocking down the BDNF in part of the brain … Read more on io9

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