Current medications used to treat drug addiction help to some extent by easing withdrawal symptoms, but these treatments cannot curb the high that people receive when they relapse and take a hit of the drug. Emma Marris explores how researchers are working on a way to make these tempting drug highs history for recovering addicts.
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Marris, E. Immune to the high. Nat Med 14, 358–361 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0408-358
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