Good news: Blood pressure drug may help treat cocaine addiction

Scientists said they have discovered the effects of a previously unknown offenders to a drug currently used in the treatment of hypertension, indicating that these effects may have a positive impact in fact useful in the treatment of addictions, especially getting used to the drug cocaine.

 According to a study that scientists have reached this conclusion based on the test included a group of mice that led to addiction to cocaine, and then underwent treatment with a drug "propranolol".

The test to give cocaine to rats at a certain angle from the cage on a regular basis, and show signs of addiction by deliberately mice do all it can to get to that corner in time to dose.

Thereafter, these mice were given injections "propranolol" minutes before the time of access to cocaine dose, and the result was that the rush to get to the corner devoted to satisfying her addiction dropped significantly.

However, the scientists said that the study is still in need of more depth the cause of the decline in Hamas mice about the drug, and whether this is linked to a decline desire pleasure drugs or affected by the memory is prevented from alert to the angle associated with the pleasure of the drug, or for other reasons are still unclear.