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How do heroin and cocaine differ in the way each drug affects the brain?
 
  a. heroin taps into the brain's communication system while cocaine interferes with the way nerve cells
  normally send, receive, and process information
  b. heroin overstimulates nerve cells while cocaine activates nerve cells
  c. heroin creates abnormal messages while cocaine amplifies messages
  d. heroin amplifies messages while heroin creates abnormal messages

Question 2

What is dopamine's most basic function?
 
  a. to tell our brain when it is time to eat
  b. to cause drug abuse
  c. to flood our pleasure circuit
  d. to carry messages between neurons


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Reply #1 on: Jul 15, 2018
Answer to Question 1

c

Answer to Question 2

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Correct answers!


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