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Arecoline

The principal neuroactive alkaloid of the areca nut, acting as a stimulant and mild analgesic and classed as carcinogenic.

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Arecoline in ice-age teeth pushes habitual drug use back before farming on Sulawesi

A Griffith University team found the alkaloid arecoline in two sets of grooved prehistoric teeth from Sulawesi and showed that sucking a whole betel nut releases enough of it to act on human receptors, from a sample of two people.

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