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NEURON
Volume 69, Issue 4, Pages 599-602Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.01.027
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- Intramural NIH HHS [Z99 DA999999] Funding Source: Medline
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Addiction coopts the brain's neuronal circuits necessary for insight, reward, motivation, and social behaviors. This functional overlap results in addicted individuals making poor choices despite awareness of the negative consequences; it explains why previously rewarding life situations and the threat of judicial punishment cannot stop drug taking and why a medical rather than a criminal approach is more effective in curtailing addiction.
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