Comments on: Choosing Cocaine http://www.scienceline.org/2008/12/17/health-dubois-cocaine-rats-choice/ The Shortest Distance Between You and Science Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:48:50 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: labrat http://www.scienceline.org/2008/12/17/health-dubois-cocaine-rats-choice/comment-page-1/#comment-2551 labrat Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:17:17 +0000 http://scienceline.org/2008/12/17/health-dubois-cocaine-rats-choice/#comment-2551 ""Cocaine and other opiates hijack this reward pathway and flood the VTA with dopamine, tricking the body into thinking it needs the drug."" This article is really great...but this sentence makes no sense and makes me wonder about the rest of the articles facts? Cocaine is not an opiate, so why does it say "and other opiates"? “”Cocaine and other opiates hijack this reward pathway and flood the VTA with dopamine, tricking the body into thinking it needs the drug.”"

This article is really great…but this sentence makes no sense and makes me wonder about the rest of the articles facts? Cocaine is not an opiate, so why does it say “and other opiates”?

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