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    Drugs Affect on Brain

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    Abstract Drugs some use them to escape pain‚ others use them for pleasure‚ and some use them to just fit in. Either way drugs are a harmful substance that may seriously affect the body. Drugs mess with the brain in ways that we couldn’t even imagine. From destroying brain cells that help with critical thinking to destroying cells that give us the ability to feel pleasure. Drugs take the place of our natural body functions of the body. They fool receptors of the body and make it to where

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    Drugs have a major impact on all of the organs in the body‚ but the brain is affected most by drug use. The brain is complex and communicates via nuerons and nerve cells to command the body. The brain ensures the body performs the necessary functions for survial. Drugs can compromise the brain’s ability to properly communicate to the organs in the body. Drugs affect communication and a person’s behavior. The following presentation will provide an explanation as to how drugs affect the brain

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    Brain Stem

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    Brain stem is considered to be one of the most primitive parts of the brain that is crucial to human survival. As thoroughly explicated by most scholars and anatomist throughout the centuries‚ it regulates the most fundamental physiological activities of the human body which are essential for maintaining and sustaining life. This is how each function is utilized in medical practice to define death through different research and experiments. Brain stem regulates alertness‚ arousal‚ breathing‚ blood

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    One of the most drugs abuse is that a patient may negatively addicted to drug. Most of people believe that stop using drugs is simple thing that anyone can do it but in fact withdrawal drugs in really hard challenge that needs hard effort and will power because drugs change the behavior that lead to force the body to abuse using drug. Drug abuse information clearly states drug abuse is an extreme desire to obtain‚ and use‚ increasing amounts of one or more substances. The first question to answer

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    information on drugs and how they affect the brain. Unfortunately‚ I have personal experience with this. My best friend has an uncle who abuses heroin‚ cocaine‚ and methamphetamines. I witnessed first-hand what this disease is doing to my friend and his family. My late uncle died at age 45 of alcoholism‚ but that’s another story. Here’s just a little anatomy and physiology on how the brain works. You are who you are because of your brain. Using the analogy of a spaceship‚ your brain is "Mission Control

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    Biopsychology: A specialty that studies the interaction of biology‚ behavior‚ and mental processes. Evolution: The gradual process of biological change that occurs in a species as it adapts to its environment new generations change as they adapt to changing environments Evolution has fundamentally shaped psychological processes because it favors genetic variations that produce adaptive behavior Charles Darwin:Wondered if animals were related and if all creations‚ even humans‚ could

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    Drug addiction is an important topic that is always being researched because of the various affects it can have on person’s brain and body. According to the Microbiology book‚ you start with an initial need that will get worse as more times you use it. This now becomes an addiction that that causes a person to increase the dosage of the drug to continue the sensation of pleasure (Whishaw and Kolb‚ 2000‚ p.197). Drug addiction is based on the brain system such as the frontal cortex‚ which makes the

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    are many drugs‚ legal and illegal‚ that many people use and abuse every day. We see stories on the news or on social media about people dying on the street every day due to an overdose on drugs. It becomes hard to deal with illegal drugs that many people use today when a good amount of the population are addicted to using drugs‚ including teens‚ especially when these drugs affect the brain‚ just in different ways. The most commonly used illegal drug is a drug known as marijuana. Teens brains become

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    Trauma Affects Brains

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    In “Trauma affects brains of boys and girls in opposite ways” by Stanford University‚ the University of Stanford states that brain scans of teenagers with post-traumatic stress disorder show a structural differences between boy and girls. The part of the brain that shows the structural difference is called insula‚ the insula is the part of the brain that “detects cues from the body and processes emotions and empathy and helps to integrate feeling‚ actions‚ and several other brain functions” (Stanford

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    Briana Mack Dr. M. Okulate Biology 112 Honors 04 April 2014 Drug Addiction and the Effects on the Brain The prevalence of drug addiction in America has been an epidemic in the past fifty years because of the violence and tragedy of events where drug use was the catalyst. Cocaine‚ Methamphetamine‚ Ecstasy‚ Amphetamine‚ Heroin‚ LSD and many more abused drugs have destroyed many lives and families from constant abuse of the substances that emasculate the body with every dose. Even though the United

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