Drug addiction is a disease that affects the brain and has subsequent consequences on the addict’s behaviour. We often have a hard time recognizing that drug addiction is in fact a disease of the brain, and not something of choice. We categorize things such as, diabetes, Crohn’s, and multiple sclerosis as disease’s but we regularly subside the fact that drug addiction is a disease as well. Many people do not understand the train of effects drugs have on the brain and how it fosters into drug abuse. Let’s start off by explaining what drug addiction is. “Drug addiction is a chronic, often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences to the drug addict and those around them. Drug addiction
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Many people misunderstand the reasoning for a downhill in behaviour in the people who use and abuse drugs, dopamine is your answer. Dopamine is defined as a neurotransmitter which controls your movement, emotion, motivation and your feeling of pleasure. In other words, when there is an excessive number of stimuli released that responds to natural behaviour it produces euphoric effects. This reaction patterns into teaching abusers to repeat the behaviours, natural behaviours such as eating, spending time with the people you love and communication are all linked.
To explain further, in the continuation of drugs, your brain will begin to adapt to the dopamine surge and produce less dopamine to your brain. In reminder, dopamine controls your emotions, feeling of pleasure, motivation and movement, so when people ask why someone has changed in behaviour from drugs, this is your answer. Drug abusers continue to use drugs to gain back a normal dopamine function or even a high, this is because the brain begins to release less dopamine over time where more drug abuse come into play to retain any “normal” feeling. Adventuring into long-term drug abuse can have some traumatic effects on the brain and other chemical systems and circuits. Long-term use can lead to impairment of judgement, your decision making, memory, your behaviour and your learning. This is where users may find …show more content…
Drugs don’t only hurt the family but anyone who is connected to the individual can suffer including, friends or peer or peer evaluators, such as people who interact with him/her. Too often people consider drug abusers come from the poor, but abusers can come from the rich or poor and at any age. It can cause several problems like, fighting and violence in an out of the home, money problems, trouble at work or school, the list goes on. Individuals who do suffer with this disease are known to be unreliable, distracted, may lie, and forget things because they are to focused on drugs and their next
Many people misunderstand the reasoning for a downhill in behaviour in the people who use and abuse drugs, dopamine is your answer. Dopamine is defined as a neurotransmitter which controls your movement, emotion, motivation and your feeling of pleasure. In other words, when there is an excessive number of stimuli released that responds to natural behaviour it produces euphoric effects. This reaction patterns into teaching abusers to repeat the behaviours, natural behaviours such as eating, spending time with the people you love and communication are all linked.
To explain further, in the continuation of drugs, your brain will begin to adapt to the dopamine surge and produce less dopamine to your brain. In reminder, dopamine controls your emotions, feeling of pleasure, motivation and movement, so when people ask why someone has changed in behaviour from drugs, this is your answer. Drug abusers continue to use drugs to gain back a normal dopamine function or even a high, this is because the brain begins to release less dopamine over time where more drug abuse come into play to retain any “normal” feeling. Adventuring into long-term drug abuse can have some traumatic effects on the brain and other chemical systems and circuits. Long-term use can lead to impairment of judgement, your decision making, memory, your behaviour and your learning. This is where users may find …show more content…
Drugs don’t only hurt the family but anyone who is connected to the individual can suffer including, friends or peer or peer evaluators, such as people who interact with him/her. Too often people consider drug abusers come from the poor, but abusers can come from the rich or poor and at any age. It can cause several problems like, fighting and violence in an out of the home, money problems, trouble at work or school, the list goes on. Individuals who do suffer with this disease are known to be unreliable, distracted, may lie, and forget things because they are to focused on drugs and their next