No child aspires to a life span of addiction. But their brains might. In new fishing expedition* to appear online in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology today, Rockefeller health center researchers reveal that minor brains exposed to the painkiller OxyContin can sustain lifelong and abiding changes in their reward system - changes that multiplication the drug's euphoric sound transmission and make such adolescents more exposed to the drug's effects later in adulthood.

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