Abuse Of Painkillers Can Predispose Adolescents To Lifelong Addiction
September 10, 2008
September 10, 2008
NEW YORK, N.Y., Sept. 10 -- Rockefeller University issued the following news release:
No child aspires to a lifetime of addiction. But their brains might. In new research to appear online in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology today, Rockefeller University researchers reveal that adolescent brains exposed to the painkiller OxyContin can sustain lifelong and permanent changes in their reward system -- changes that increase the drug's euphoric properties and make such adolescents mo . . .
No child aspires to a lifetime of addiction. But their brains might. In new research to appear online in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology today, Rockefeller University researchers reveal that adolescent brains exposed to the painkiller OxyContin can sustain lifelong and permanent changes in their reward system -- changes that increase the drug's euphoric properties and make such adolescents mo . . .