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	Podcast:		RadioMD (All Shows)
	Episode:		EP 884B A Treatment for Cocaine Addiction?
	Category:		Health
	Duration:		00:00:00
	Publish Date:		2018-04-03 01:00:00
	Description:		Dr. Drew Kiraly, assistant professor of psychiatry and neuroscience Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine, discusses a potential way to minimize an addict's desire for cocaine. Cocaine addiction is a dysfunction in the reward-related brain circuits, causing users to repeatedly seek out and take the drug. Dr. Drew Kiraly, assistant professor of psychiatry and neuroscience Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine, discusses a potential way to minimize the addict's desire for the drug. By manipulating a key factor in the brain's process of craving cocaine, the findings suggest a new therapeutic approach to decrease a human's desire for the drug without filling the void with another dangerous substance. The would be a first for potential cocaine addiction treatment outside of things like 12-step programs and psychotherapy. Dr. Kiraly also touches on the larger opioid epidemic and other addiction issues. Bonus! The Healthy Benefits of Black Tea
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