Addictive Substances: How Does Addiction Feel?
Introduction: What is addiction? Addictions is a condition in which the body must have a drug to avoid physical and psychological withdrawal symptoms. Addiction’s first stage is dependence, during which the search for a drug dominates an individual’s life. An addict eventually develops tolerance, which forces the person to consume larger and larger doses of the drug to get the same effect. Addiction is a condition that results when a person ingests a substance (e.g., alcohol, cocaine, nicotine) or engages activity (e.g., gambling, sex, shopping) that can be pleasurable but the continued use/act of which becomes compulsive and interferes with ordinary life responsibilities, such as work, relationships, or health. Addiction can become more important
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It feels as if you haven’t been happy is years and the drug makes you have positive thoughts. The drugs can make you laugh as if you haven’t laughed in that way before, and your start to like the feeling of always being happy. I mean, an addictive substance feels good because it stimulates the pleasure center of the brain through neurotransmitters such as dopamine and GABA. If you are a liability person, addictive substances don’t just feel good. The addicting substances feel so good that you would chase after them. This is where addiction comes in. If you are a liability person, addictive substances feel so good that you are willing to suffer negative consequences in order to get more and to continue to feel the high or to not feel “human.” Addictive substances feel different inside an addict’s brain than they do to a non-addicts. This is why the two sides have difficulty understanding each other. Therefore a non-addict cannot understand why the addict would go to such lengths, when it is clearly destroying their life. Saying “no,” is a big problem of addiction, because addictive substances feel so good to them that they don’t want to stop being happy. An addict will deny that they have a problem and say everything is okay, when they have nothing. In a long-term addiction, the drug or whatever, will isolate you from the people and activities that mean the most to you. Addiction is “the Brain
It feels as if you haven’t been happy is years and the drug makes you have positive thoughts. The drugs can make you laugh as if you haven’t laughed in that way before, and your start to like the feeling of always being happy. I mean, an addictive substance feels good because it stimulates the pleasure center of the brain through neurotransmitters such as dopamine and GABA. If you are a liability person, addictive substances don’t just feel good. The addicting substances feel so good that you would chase after them. This is where addiction comes in. If you are a liability person, addictive substances feel so good that you are willing to suffer negative consequences in order to get more and to continue to feel the high or to not feel “human.” Addictive substances feel different inside an addict’s brain than they do to a non-addicts. This is why the two sides have difficulty understanding each other. Therefore a non-addict cannot understand why the addict would go to such lengths, when it is clearly destroying their life. Saying “no,” is a big problem of addiction, because addictive substances feel so good to them that they don’t want to stop being happy. An addict will deny that they have a problem and say everything is okay, when they have nothing. In a long-term addiction, the drug or whatever, will isolate you from the people and activities that mean the most to you. Addiction is “the Brain