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...team of researchers led by psychiatrist Dr. Nora Volkow of the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York has published the strongest evidence to date that the surge of dopamine in addicts' brains is what triggers a cocaine high. In last week's edition of the journal Nature they described how powerful brain-imaging technology can be used to track the rise of dopamine and link it to feelings of euphoria...
...drugs work on it), the evidence suggests that we may be fighting the wrong battle. Americans tend to think of drug addiction as a failure of character. But this stereotype is beginning to give way to the recognition that drug dependence has a clear biological basis. "Addiction," declares Brookhaven's Volkow, "is a disorder of the brain no different from other forms of mental illness...
...keeps dopamine levels high by inhibiting the activity of a transporter molecule that would ordinarily ferry dopamine back into the cells that produce it. Nicotine, heroin and alcohol trigger a complex chemical cascade that raises dopamine levels. And a still unknown chemical in cigarette smoke, a group led by Brookhaven chemist Joanna Fowler reported last year, may extend the activity of dopamine by blocking a mopping-up enzyme, called MAO B, that would otherwise destroy...
BORN: Oct. 31, 1949, Laurel EDUCATION: William Carey College, B.A., 1970 FAMILY: Wife, Rosemary; three children RELIGION: Presbyterian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Funeral director POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1988- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 229, Brookhaven...
NORA BREDES (D) District 1 (Eastern Suffolk County--Brookhaven; Smithtown...