How Addiction Changes Your Brain

Published November 25, 2013

How addiction changes your brain — CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta says the brain is “rewired” when someone becomes addicted.

Study Probes Heroin Addiction's Effect on the Brain
Researchers examined the brains of dead heroin users and focused on an area of the brain called the striatum, which plays a key role in drug abuse. They found significant changes in how DNA was being used in the brains, and the degree of change …
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The immune system's role in addiction
But the immune system that surrounds the dopamine systems of the brain also seem to be very sensitive to drugs of abuse. So much so, that in preclinical studies it is possible to make rats like alcohol, opioids and methamphetamine a lot more, just by …
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