Alcohol and Tobacco: How Smoking May Promote Excessive Drinking
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Cigarette smokers tend to drink more alcohol than their nonsmoking peers. In this issue of Neuron, Doyon et al. (2013) found that nicotine-induced increases in stress hormones can augment ethanol self-administration in rats, suggesting that a drug interaction may contribute to this phenomenon.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Neuron
دوره 79 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013