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Nature Medicine 14, 358 - 361 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nm0408-358
Immune to the high
Emma Marris1
- Emma Marris is a science writer based in Columbia, Missouri.
Abstract
Current medications used to treat drug addiction help to some extent by easing withdrawal symptoms, but these treatments cannot curb the high that people receive when they relapse and take a hit of the drug. Emma Marris explores how researchers are working on a way to make these tempting drug highs history for recovering addicts.
On a biting cold February evening in central Arkansas, the Lonoke County Sheriff's Office is busy preparing to bust a local drug dealer for selling methamphetamine. Lieutenant Jim Kulesa sits at his desk counting out $20 bills, reminding his team to make sure to crumple them up so that the money looks less suspiciously fresh when they use it for the transaction, which police refer to as a 'controlled buy'.
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