Molly Hears That Addiction May Be Due to Changes in Brain

question 51

Multiple Choice

Molly hears that addiction may be due to changes in brain patterns and activity as a result of repeated drug use. When she asks her professor why this is so, he cites research which states that ____.

• A) what she has heard is only a myth, and has no basis in fact
• B) only individuals with familial alcoholism and drug addiction are likely to show these changes in brain patterns
• C) the chronic flooding of dopamine from drug use eventually results in compulsive drug-seeking behavior
• D) the research is merely correlational and no one is certain why this happens

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