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Kabwe Tuskers



Date sent:              Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:24:46 -0800
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As I mentioned earlier today, alcoholism is a disease.
  As fate would have it, today's Scientific American
newsletter has an article that talks about the concept
of addiction and what it actually does to the brain.

This is offered simply as additional information.


** The Addicted Brain

New research indicates that chronic drug use induces
changes in the structure and function of the system's
neurons that last for weeks, months or years after the
last fix. These adaptations, perversely, dampen the
pleasurable effects of a chronically abused substance
yet also increase the cravings that trap the addict in
a destructive spiral of escalating use and increased
fallout at work and at home. Improved understanding of
these neural alterations should help provide better
interventions for addiction, so that people who have
fallen prey to habit-forming drugs can reclaim their
brains and their lives.
http://click.exacttarget.com/?fe9211727266007c7d-fe2616707367037f711d78




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