How Drug Abuse Affects The Brain Essay

Did you know that over 200,000 people die because of drug abuse? Also drug abuse is a brain disease that causes people to look for and use drugs. The worst part of drug abuse is that it has a bad effect on your brain. It’s because of all these changes in the brain that makes it hard to quit. It’s the drug abuse that affects a person’s self-control and its abilities to make decision Study says that kids that underage drink have 5 times more of a chance of drug abuse than kids that don't drink alcohol. Why do people use drugs? Some people do it because they are having a hard time or they have been thrown a bad death or stressed out or just simply to be “cool”. You can't really do much about them doing drugs but the most you can do is help …show more content…
Most drugs “fool” with your brain and make you get abnormal messages - it’s called a neurotransmitter. Other drugs such as cocaine can make mess with your nervous system and brain chemicals. Nearly all drugs go to the brain no matter what; they damage your brain by flooding the circuits with dopamine . Dopamine is the region of your brain that has control, movement, emotions, and feeling of pleasure. This also affect the amount of time you do other things like say you were the person to send a lot of time with family the drug abuse can affect that because your brain is only thinking about the drugs and that’s what you’re going to send your time on instead of your family like you would usually do. I know what you’re thinking everyone that does drugs get addicted but really it all depends in the environment, like say a person who grew up with both mother and father and had a stress free life is less likely to do drugs and get addicted or not do them at all but someone who grew up with one mother or just a father or has been sexually abused or has peer pressure is more likely to do drugs and get