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Meth inflames and stimulates your brain through similar pathways – new research offers potential avenue to treat meth addiction

  • Written by Habibeh Khoshbouei, Professor of Neuroscience, University of Florida
Meth inflames and stimulates your brain through similar pathways – new research offers potential avenue to treat meth addictionMeth, also known as ice, is as addictive as it is damaging.FlashMovie/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Methamphetamine doesn’t just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain – it also provokes damaging brain inflammation through similar mechanisms.

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