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Compulsive eating shares addictive biochemical mechanism with cocaine, heroin abuse, study shows
March 29, 2010 by NewsBot
In a newly published study, scientists have shown for the first time that the same molecular mechanisms that drive people into drug addiction are behind the compulsion to overeat, pushing people into obesity.
