A new study shows adolescents may be less vulnerable to the long-term effects of withdrawal and relapse than those who take drugs as adults.
Are kids less vulnerable to long-term effects of drug use than adults? Georgia State University researchers think so. A recent study seems to show that adolescent rats are less vulnerable to the long-term effects of withdrawal and relapse in certain types of drug use than rats that take the drugs in adulthood.
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