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Addiction Science: From Molecules to Managed Care

Drugs of abuse change the brain, and new technologies are showing us how.

This used to be your brain on drugs - picture of egg frying in pan

Indeed we’ve come a long way from this primitive depiction of a “brain on drugs.”

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