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Opioid receptors: drivers to addiction?

Emmanuel Darcq1 and Brigitte Lina Kieffer 1,2* Abstract | Drug addiction is a worldwide societal problem and public health burden, and results from recreational drug use that develops into a complex brain disorder. The opioid system, one of the first discovered neuropeptide systems in the history of neuroscience, is central to addiction. Recently, opioid receptors […]