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11th Nov 2001

How Drugs Affect the Body


Chris Smith

Shibley Rahman

How do drugs of abuse, incluing ecstasy, cocaine, heroin, marijuana and amphetamines, affect our brains and bodies ? Professor John Henry, from St. Mary's Medical School London, joins the Naked Scientists to tell us how.

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