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Addictive drugs produce changes in one particular group of synapses that use the neurotransmitter _______________.
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Dopamine. The neurotransmitter plays an important role in addiction, and acts as adrenaline and affects the ability to feel pleasure and pain, emotional response and movement control. Drugs can affect these abilities by either stimulate or fail to stimulate the receptors of dopamine.
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