“That was good!” “Do it again.”This is what the brain says when people use tobacco, as well as ‘hard drugs’ such as heroin. New research published in the February 13 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience indicates that the effects of nicotine and opiates on the brain’s reward system are equally strong in a key pleasure-sensing areas of the brain - the nucleus accumbens.

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