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July 10, 2005

Addiction Is a 'Brain Disease'
Initial drug use may be voluntary, but once addiction develops control is disrupted in the circuitry of the brain. Recent studies have shed new light on the relationship between drug abuse and mental illness, and the roles played by heredity, age, and other factors.
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