Woman Dies After Doctors Remove Crack Pipe From Vagina

April Rollison, 31, from Sebring, Florida., was arrested in Babson Park for drug possession on Dec. 16 and was taken to Polk County Jail, where a body scan revealed two “foreign bodies” in her body cavity — a glass bottle with 2 grams of cocaine.

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New Insight Into How Brain 'Learns' Cocaine Addiction

A team of researchers says it has solved the longstanding puzzle of why a key protein linked to learning is also needed to become addicted to cocaine.

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Dopamine Implicated In Food Restriction

Scientists have reported a possible basis for why food-restricted animals show increased susceptibility to drugs of abuse. This association has puzzled researchers since it was first observed more than three decades ago.

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Cocaine Physically Changes Brain To Demand For More

Cocaine triggers rapid growth in new brain structures linked to memory and learning, but only in a way that encourages drug-seeking behavior, researchers from the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at UC San Francisco reported in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

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