Contributor The University of Utah Genetic Science Learning Center

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02-20-2014
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This site discusses how drugs alter the brain’s reward pathway. Topics include how drugs stimulate dopamine, how abusing drugs can affect the body, the physiology of the “high,” the brain’s coping mechanisms, and how changes in the brains of former drug addicts exist long after usage ends.