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Trick Question: What’s the Answer to Drug Abuse?

By Gerard DiLeo, MD - September 11, 2018

From thousands of years ago to now, we harvested the opium poppy and eventually the morphine molecule to give the LC some competition. The LC tones down the pain signals initiated by injury, but narcotics, when they fill the opioid receptor site's on neurons, block the pain signals from registering at the brain level, and the LC’s response doesn’t even happen.

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Trick Question: What is the Answer to Drug Abuse?