How Stress Triggers Drug Relapse

Published March 12, 2013

How stress triggers drug relapse
When researchers treated rats that had recovered from cocaine addiction with a chemical that blocks the “kappa opioid receptors” that stress activates in the VTA, the rats didn't relapse to cocaine use under stress. Untreated rats who had also … Read more on Futurity: Research News

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