Researchers use MRI to study drug addiction

Penn researchers use MRI to study drug addiction - Philly.com: "MATTHEW ELLIS started popping painkillers as a teenager and switched to heroin a few years later. It was simple economics, and a common progression among today's opiate addicts - the recreational drug dabbler turned full-time junkie. That's usually when the nightmare takes hold. You start living life one injection at a time. Everything else - career, family, self-respect - is prioritized behind the next little wax-paper bag of dope. "I was hopelessly addicted to heroin," said Ellis, 25, a carpenter's assistant and father of two young boys."


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