Shari Roan wrote the article "Nicotine primes the brain to embrace cocaine, study says" on the Los Angeles Times website. The study was performed in mice. The findings suggest that reducing smoking and the use of other tobacco products, and even nicotine replacement products and exposure to secondhand smoke, may have the bilateral impact of addiction to other addictive substances. The researchers believe that a decrease in smoking rates in young people would be expected to lead to a decrease in cocaine addiction. They treated mice with nicotine and then exposed them to cocaine. The mice whose brains had been exposed to nicotine responded differently to the cocaine compared to mice who were not exposed first to nicotine. Reversing the order of the drugs by exposing mice to cocaine first then nicotine had no such effect on behavior.
I think that studies like this should be done all the time because they are important for the society to understand what is wrong and what is right for our health. It will help benefit the adults and especially the adolescents because they are the ones who always make risky decisions.
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