Injections of licorice ingredient show promise as treatment for cocaine addiction

Friday, February 20, 2009 - 15:07 in Health & Medicine

An ingredient in licorice shows promise as an antidote for the toxic effects of cocaine abuse, including deadly overdoses of the highly addictive drug, researchers in Korea and Pennsylvania are reporting. Their study is in the Jan. 2 issue of ACS` Journal of Proteome Research.

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