Addiction and Human Life
Addiction and Human Life
Human addiction can come in many forms and can affect our very way of life. Addiction can be something as small as playing video games excessively or as threatening as taking heroin. The truth behind addiction starts at the source of how we cope with the everyday stress and boredom in our lives.
Drug abuse 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. (WebMD, Drug Abuse, Addiction, and the Brain) As children grow up they are taught by grownups that when you have something wrong with your body or skin that you should take a drug made to cure the ailment. I believe this conditioning is part of the reason why certain people become addicted to drugs. When a drug affects our body it imitates the brain 's natural chemical messengers and overstimulates the "reward circuit" of the brain. An immediate positive effect begins to take away stress and relieve our minds of anxiety, then that drug effect will be remembered to be taken when other problems in life form that similar ailment effect. (WebMD, Drug Abuse, Addiction, and the Brain) As a person continues to abuse drugs, the brain creates surges of dopamine; the chemical that tells lets us know that we are feeling good. Our bodies adapt to the dopamine surges by producing less dopamine or reducing dopamine receptors. The user must therefore keep abusing drugs to bring his or her dopamine function back to normal or use more drugs to achieve a dopamine high. (WebMD, Drug Abuse, Addiction, and the Brain) The more people take the drugs the harder it is for the body to take back control from stopping use. Perfect examples are drugs like morphine that dull pain receivers in nerves or heroin that "fools" the brain 's receptors to activate the nerve cells to send abnormal messages to the body. (WebMD, Drug Abuse, Addiction, and the Brain)
Sometimes introducing chemical
Human addiction can come in many forms and can affect our very way of life. Addiction can be something as small as playing video games excessively or as threatening as taking heroin. The truth behind addiction starts at the source of how we cope with the everyday stress and boredom in our lives.
Drug abuse 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. (WebMD, Drug Abuse, Addiction, and the Brain) As children grow up they are taught by grownups that when you have something wrong with your body or skin that you should take a drug made to cure the ailment. I believe this conditioning is part of the reason why certain people become addicted to drugs. When a drug affects our body it imitates the brain 's natural chemical messengers and overstimulates the "reward circuit" of the brain. An immediate positive effect begins to take away stress and relieve our minds of anxiety, then that drug effect will be remembered to be taken when other problems in life form that similar ailment effect. (WebMD, Drug Abuse, Addiction, and the Brain) As a person continues to abuse drugs, the brain creates surges of dopamine; the chemical that tells lets us know that we are feeling good. Our bodies adapt to the dopamine surges by producing less dopamine or reducing dopamine receptors. The user must therefore keep abusing drugs to bring his or her dopamine function back to normal or use more drugs to achieve a dopamine high. (WebMD, Drug Abuse, Addiction, and the Brain) The more people take the drugs the harder it is for the body to take back control from stopping use. Perfect examples are drugs like morphine that dull pain receivers in nerves or heroin that "fools" the brain 's receptors to activate the nerve cells to send abnormal messages to the body. (WebMD, Drug Abuse, Addiction, and the Brain)
Sometimes introducing chemical
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