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Question: What happens when a person recovering from methamphetamines takes Vicodin? Does it make people seek the drug again?
Submitted on: March 25, 2010
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There are common pathways in the brain among drugs of abuse, all of which act on dopamine. Using one drug of abuse, such as an opiate, can create what is called a kindling effect that leads a person to return to their drug of choice, whether it be methamphetamine, alcohol, or other drugs of abuse.
Answered on: March 02, 2011
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