Researchers at the University of Cambridge believe that addiction to the addiction is hereditary.

Scientists conducted a study, the participants of which were 50 pairs of brothers and sisters.

Someone in the couple was taking cocaine or amphetamines.

There were also participants in the control group who had family ties and who were not addicted.

It turned out that addicted people and their relatives have a similar brain structure, and they also had a disruption in the function of self-control, which is one of the signs of addiction, experts explain.

According to the results of the study, the experts concluded that a number of physiological and anatomical features that determine the predisposition to drug addiction may well be inherited.

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