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Daily briefing: Skeleton teeth show evidence of the earliest known habitual drug use
Nature, Published online: 11 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02901-x Traces of the psychoactive compound arecoline suggest that two people regularly sucked on psychoactive betel nuts. Plus, what motivates people to take action on…
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