The Fourteen Who Forgot

After overdosing, some opioid addicts are losing their memory and nobody really knows why. All doctors know is that each patient’s hippocampus — the area of the brain responsible for memory — becomes severely damaged. Are the opioids laced with an unknown toxin that targets the hippocampus? Does reduced respiration caused by opioid overdose damage the hippocampus?

Source: BuzzFeed
Published: Apr 15, 2017
Length: 17 minutes (4,381 words)
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