{"id":716810,"date":"2022-02-16T17:55:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T21:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=716810"},"modified":"2022-02-16T17:55:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T21:55:53","slug":"researchers-find-activating-a-specific-acetylcholine-receptor-in-the-brain-reduces-cocaine-use-in-rodents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=716810","title":{"rendered":"Researchers find activating a specific acetylcholine receptor in the brain reduces cocaine use in rodents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cocaine, opioids, and other drugs of abuse disrupt the brain&#8217;s reward system, often shifting users&#8217; priorities to obtaining more drug above all else. For people battling addiction, this persistent craving is notoriously difficult to overcome\u2014but new research from scientists at MIT&#8217;s McGovern Institute for Brain Research and collaborators points toward a therapeutic strategy that could help.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-02-specific-acetylcholine-receptor-brain-cocaine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Researchers find activating a specific acetylcholine receptor in the brain reduces cocaine use in rodents<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cocaine, opioids, and other drugs of abuse disrupt the brain&#8217;s reward system, often shifting users&#8217; priorities to obtaining more drug above all else. For people battling addiction, this persistent craving&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=716810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}