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Brain Chemistry Link In Alcohol Addiction?
(1/18/2012)
By Elizabeth Landau
CNN
January 12, 2012
It seems that some people experience this opioid release differently. Researchers found a correlation between how good volunteers felt after drinking and the amount of opioid released. In the heavy drinkers, a single drink leads to the release of more opioid in the orbital frontal cortex and the nucleus accumbens - two regions that play a role in reward.
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Keywords: brain chemistry, link, alcohol addiction