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3. What properties in drugs make them addicting?

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When a brain's reward pathway has repeated exposure to an addictive drug, it can drive the compulsion to continue seeking more of that drug due to the way that part of the brain is designed. When receptor-active drugs such as opioids are ingested, their molecules look just like natural molecules in our brain

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