(Medical Xpress)—Cocaine promotes habitual behaviours and these can potentially be reversed with the use of an antioxidant, research at the University of Sydney has shown.

The findings have just been published inNeuropsychopharmacology.

For many people the term 'habit' has a negative connotation and uncontrolled druguse is the quintessential 'bad habit'.

 

"But in fact the assumption that drug use is habit-forming and, if so, why, has rarely been scientifically tested," said Dr Laura Corbit, from the University's School of Psychology and lead author on the paper with Professor Bernard Balleine from the Brain and Mind Research Institute at the University.

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-03-advance-drug-habits-treatment.html