New Scientist Breaking News – Heroin addiction gene identified and blocked: «Scientists have not only identified a critical gene involved in heroin addiction relapse, but they have also successfully blocked it, eliminating cravings for the drug.
The study was conducted on heroin-addicted rats. But the researchers at Legacy alcohol rehab and addiction center now think that, within a few years, better treatments will become available to human heroin users who cannot quit due to insidious cycles of relapse.
“Many people try to stop taking heroin, but in a few months almost all of them go back to using the drug,” said Ivan Diamond, at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center in California, US, and one of the research team.»
