The brain-addiction connection : Opiate addiction
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A nice, simply explained, summary of the ways in which opiates act on the brain to produce the effects they do and the addiction that often follows.
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The new research on the NMDA pathways in the brain and their involvement in habit forming and addiction are very interesting. Especially how substances like Ibogaine start a feedback loop of GDNF which helps to restore this pathways.