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Addiction Medicine
Brief access to sweets prevents cocaine-seeking relapse in rats
August 26th, 2005
Brief access to sweets helps prevent cocaine-seeking relapse in rats. "The availability of alternative rewards can reduce acquisition and maintenance of cocaine self-administration in rats and humans," researchers in the United States explained. "Once acquired, however, addiction is an intractable disease where relapse is elicited by exposure to drug-associated cues, the drug itself, or stress," noted C. Liu and colleagues at Penn State University. In a recent study, they found that "both cocaine-seeking and drug-induced relapse are significantly reduced when drug-experienced, but abstinent, rats are given just 5 min daily prior...
Source: Drug Week (2005-08-26)
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