Naut's Tidbits & Snippets: Curing Drug Addiction: A Dental Approach

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Curing Drug Addiction: A Dental Approach

Could a dental anaesthetic help with drug addiction? Researchers have found that by injecting amphetamine-addicted rats' brains with lidocaine, the rats could forget temporarily their cravings for narcotics. The lidocaine was injected into the insula, a part of the brain that partly figures in drug... Sign in to see full entry.

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