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New research uncovers what makes cocaine so dangerous
Updated On: 12 August, 2024 12:30 PM IST | New Delhi | IANS
A team at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has uncovered how cocaine triggers a specific protein in the brain to hijack normal brain circuitry, promoting further drug-taking behaviour
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Cocaine, a drug that has long been infamous for multiple overdose deaths, and erratic behaviour -- from rock prodigy Tom Petty to Charlie Sheen, once Hollywood’s highest paid sitcom star -- has ruined talents and fortunes for long.
Now scientists have uncovered what exactly is in cocaine that makes it such a dreaded narcotic substance.
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