The rat relentlessly pressing the lever, the human whom drugs have made into a walking zombie, Pickard writes, these are the poster children of the currently dominant scientific paradigm of addiction, which sees it as a brain disease causing compulsive drug use. But, convenient as the model may be, is it true
This is because nicotine can change the way the brain works, causing cravings for more of it
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Griffiths believes this is the first study to conclusively show that nicotine can pass the "reinforcement test" in nonsmokers, and he expects it will inform future studies of "avoiders" and "choosers." "I hope our findings will point the way toward future interventions that prevent or treat nicotine addiction," he says, "a topic of increasing importance in light of the expanding marketing of electronic nicotine delivery devicese-cigarettesto youthful nicotine nonusers." Read more from Hopkins Medicine Posted in Health Tagged addiction, tobacco control, e-cigarettes, nicotine
