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Stress flips cocaine relapse to ‘on’; research switches it back to ‘off’

April 11, 2017 by

Even a single, brief stress can induce days of relapse to cocaine-seeking among rats, but a new study shows how the tendency to relapse persists and how to shut it down, suggesting a new pathway for developing addiction treatment medications.

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