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Scientists have discovered that addictions be hereditary. A team from Britain’s University of Cambridge found that of drug addicts share the same brain abnormalities as their drug- brothers and sisters. The research team said these abnormal brain structures are to poor self-control and drug dependence. The researchers that addiction is in some a “disorder of the brain”. This may important new ways into helping people with problems of -control when it comes to addictions. The study to find out if drugs changed the “wiring” of the brain or the brains of drug addicts were wired differently from birth.

Lead researcher Dr Karen Ersche told the BBC: “It has long been that not everyone who takes drugs becomes addicted.” She continued: “It shows that drug addiction is not a of lifestyle, it is a disorder of the brain and we need to this. These brothers and sisters who don't have addiction problems, what they can tell us is how they these problems, how they manage self-control in their life.” Dr Ersche and her colleagues studied 50 of siblings — one with a of drug addiction and one with no experience of drugs. She compared these with 50 people. She concluded: “We need to find out how these non-addicted siblings were able to using drugs.”