Flies offered unlimited alcohol behave a lot like human alcoholics

Sunday, December 13, 2009 - 00:14 in Psychology & Sociology

When given the chance to consume alcohol at will, fruit flies behave in ways that look an awful lot like human alcoholism. A new study considers alcohol self-administration in insects.

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