A classic instinct -- salt appetite -- is linked to drug addiction

Monday, July 11, 2011 - 14:30 in Health & Medicine

A team of Duke University Medical Center and Australian scientists has found that addictive drugs may have hijacked the same nerve cells and connections in the brain that serve a powerful, ancient instinct: the appetite for salt.

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