Knowing How Drugs Affect The Brain

It is so important to learn how drugs affect the brain. Substance use and misuse will affect the brain as they are chemicals that affect your nerve cells and how they work with the rest of your body. In other words, the chemicals in drugs cause addiction and tell your body you need them to survive.

Addiction

First, it is essential to talk about addiction. The happy feeling you will get from substance use and misuse when initially taking drugs is from a chemical called endorphins. They are released from your brain to your body. The release of endorphins is how drugs affect the brain as they make you feel like this is a good thing, which means you will become addicted. Endorphins will make you feel:

• Happy

• Relaxed

• Excited

Our brains remember when we feel these happy emotions, which leads us to become addicted.

Mental Health Conditions

Many mental health conditions develop because of substance use and misuse. They are caused by how drugs affect the brain. For example:

• Psychosis

• Schizophrenia

• Anxiety and depression

Taking drugs will cause these conditions because of how drugs affect the brain. By overdosing on drugs, you can develop problems that will drive long-term health conditions. Due to the chemicals in drugs, the nerves in the brain can become damaged and changed. Over time, this can become a permanent problem that will cause mental health conditions.

Unfortunately, when people take drugs repeatedly, they change the brain and make it very difficult for people to live the life they did before becoming addicted to drugs. The side effects can still be a problem even if the person has stopped taking drugs.

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Written by Lily Shaw