Addicts Brains May Be Wired at Birth for Less Self-Control
"Many addicts inherit a brain that has trouble just saying no to drugs."
"A study in Science finds that cocaine addicts have abnormalities in areas of the brain involved in self-control. And these abnormalities appear to predate any drug abuse."
"The study, done by a team at the University of Cambridge in the U.K., looked at 50 pairs of siblings. One member of each pair was a cocaine addict. The other had no history of drug abuse"
"But brain scans showed that both siblings had brains unlike those of typical people, says Karen Ersche, the study's lead author. "
"'The fibers that connect the different parts of the brain were less efficient in both,' she says."