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Mind Over Matter: Cocaine

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Explores with young teens how cocaine changes the way nerve cells communicate in the brain and the negative effects the drug can have on the body.

NIH Pub Number: 09-3857
Published: January 1997
Revised: January 2009
Author: National Institute on Drug Abuse
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Explores with young teens how cocaine changes the way nerve cells communicate in the brain and the negative effects the drug can have on the body.
Publication Cover
NIH Pub Number: 
09-3857
Date: 
January 1997
Revision Date: 
January 2009
Author: 
National Institute on Drug Abuse

This page was last updated January 2009.

Mind Over Matter

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