Imagine your body on the ground as you start to doze off, as you feel the high you slowly begin to start an fall asleep. You have just entered an opioid overdose, and there are only two outcomes to your story. You might either blackout and wake up finding yourself on a hospital bed, or you might forever black out. Now listen to this! What if I told you there is a cure for overdosing called Naloxone that increases your chances of survival if used correctly. Would you take it? If so accept the restrictions and regulations that are placed upon this cure, and that it is not accessible to everyone. This cure can be the difference between life and death in any opioid overdose scenario and the states have the final say on how it 's being used and distributed. Even though many people believe that it will encourage drug users to continue or increase drug use because they think drug
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When you accomplish a small task your brain rewards you by releasing endorphins to help build a habit of accomplishment. Now with heroin, it works almost the same. As heroin enters the receptors you feel high for a while but at the same time, you are building this accomplishment habit at a larger scale. This creates a strong urge to keep getting that feeling of a high. “As a result, dopamine’s impact on the reward circuit of the brain of someone who abuses drugs can become abnormally low, and that person’s ability to experience any pleasure is reduced.”(National Institute on Drug Abuse, 21) The more the opioid drug is being used the more tolerance they have to it. As they build a tolerance to the drug the daily actions that triggered the release of endorphins will no longer satisfy them creating a feeling of depression and lifelessness. This is what causes the urge to keep consuming heroin even though they know is bad for their well being. High eventually starts to feel low so the drug user consumes more drugs to feel an even higher high which builds the
When you accomplish a small task your brain rewards you by releasing endorphins to help build a habit of accomplishment. Now with heroin, it works almost the same. As heroin enters the receptors you feel high for a while but at the same time, you are building this accomplishment habit at a larger scale. This creates a strong urge to keep getting that feeling of a high. “As a result, dopamine’s impact on the reward circuit of the brain of someone who abuses drugs can become abnormally low, and that person’s ability to experience any pleasure is reduced.”(National Institute on Drug Abuse, 21) The more the opioid drug is being used the more tolerance they have to it. As they build a tolerance to the drug the daily actions that triggered the release of endorphins will no longer satisfy them creating a feeling of depression and lifelessness. This is what causes the urge to keep consuming heroin even though they know is bad for their well being. High eventually starts to feel low so the drug user consumes more drugs to feel an even higher high which builds the