What is the essence of addiction from a scientific standpoint? What facts hold the foundation that supposes that an "addict" has no operate and that free will has nothing to do with their ability to stop? What indicates that without help, they have petite or no hope of recovering, from this "state of addiction" that has occurred in their brain?
The overwhelming, compulsive, uncontrollable use of drugs is a central factor in the life of an addict. Their need to satisfy the cravings becomes dominant in all behavior. It does not matter what drug they choose. Nothing will satisfy the remarkable craving except their drug-of-choice. Meth users will not determine for heroin. Heroin users will not be satisfied with marijuana. Crack users have no desire for downers (sedatives, painkillers, etc).
Addiction In Drugs
It is not about arrival down, fearing dramatic withdrawal symptoms, or anything like that, that produces prolonged cravings (though an addict will use these to clarify and rationalize illegal, immoral things that they do to accumulate the drug). In fact, there are few withdrawal symptoms connected with crack and methamphetamines, two of the most addictive substances known. It is not the corporeal part that matters. It is truly the psychological aspect of addiction that produces cravings that effect in prolonged use of and progressively, using more and more of the chosen drug. It's easily more like "the drug chose them", for the addict.
Free will and the ability to turn away from drugs is no longer an option. An addict cannot do this for his job, his health or, sadly, even his mum or his wife; not even for his own children. corporeal harm, jails and prisons, and often even the possibility of death are just obstacles to be overcome in the insatiable need for, and quest to obtain, the addicts' drug-of-choice! Having lost the ability to pick not to use the drug, the addicts' life progressively centers more and more on the drug. Drugs become the surmise to get up and get out of bed. Drugs become the excuse not to do things that discourage their use. They are "thee pleasure" in the addicts' life. Addicts in later stages of addiction will even pick that, drug-of-choice, over the euphoric delight of sex! Use of money is prioritized with, obtaining drugs, as amount one. You see, the addict
How can this be?
I can't dream anything being that weak!
Don't they care about anything?
I just can't understand what is wrong with him!
Doesn't she see what is happening to her life?
Has to have that drug! Unless his craving is appeased nothing can be all right for the addict. When they are compulsively obsessing over the need to satisfy the cravings few barriers exist. Principles, rules and morality become non-existent. This is the truth with regard to the disease of addiction that changes a user into the fiend that addicts at last become.
Addiction Is A Disease Of The Brain,, Resulting In Fundamental, Long continuing Changes!
Understand this; you are an addict because drugs have changed your brain. Your state of being has been totally taken over by the drug. Learn to equate this disease with diabetes. It is not cured. It is held back by manifold ongoing episodes of treatment. As with most diseases, often a emergency occurs that requires more than the daily maintenance that suffices most often. This is most often a relapse into using.
Though addiction is a disease of the brain, it is also much more than that. It is far more complicated because of the fact that the human brain is the most complicated organ in any living organism. The brain controls every system in the body. Every characteristic unique to the human being is a effect of our uniquely complicated brain. The human brain produces things that are mostly exclusive to humans. Conscience, remorse, morality, philosophy, religious beliefs, science, mechanics, and the list goes on... Drugs have fundamentally caused long continuing changes in the addict, in the thing responsible for all of this... The Brain. Is it any wonder that you have trouble understanding the problems that effect from addiction?
You are going to need to remind yourself that addiction is a chronic, progressive, fatal disease... At the same time, seeing it as a disease cannot be an excuse... Its being a disease is the "reason" for many things, but not an excuse. Addiction is a "treatable" disease even though it is continuing and branch to relapses. As with most potentially fatal diseases, addiction often requires more than one chapter of treatment.
Neurotransmitters:
Chemicals in the brain that are responsible for communication between the nerve cells of which the brain and all of the nervous system are composed... The cells themselves and a few very unique organs in the body furnish these type of chemicals.
Don't worry, this chemistry chapter is about as complicated as we'll get!
"Dopamine"
The changes in levels and availability of this neurotransmitter or brain chemical, somehow cause changes at a cellular level that translate into compulsive, uncontrollable drug use on the behavioral level! This means that these brain changes, over time, get translated into behavior changes. This is why you are bewildered at what you observe.
About Dopamine:
Initially, population take drugs because they like what they do to their brain. Amid a whole series of brain changes, one is a surge of
Dopamine, that occurs when the drugs we ordinarily classify as addictive, are taken. When a drug produces a easily sharp spike in Dopamine it is extremely pleasurable. The odds are very high that one will contact extreme euphoria with this drug, and it will be addictive! It's no surprise that Dopamine is the brain chemical complicated in signaling all of our general pleasurable experiences, such as... Sex, eating, laughter, love, smoking, and surely, getting high. Here the question arises! After taking drugs for a lengthy amount of time, this includes all addictive substances we know of, the addict's Dopamine levels are ordinarily lowered. This in itself will cause a nearly faultless personality change. Some population contact continuing dysphoria and/or depression as a result. Major behavioral changes become apparent at this point. This then is no longer the person that you once knew. They now have a basically separate brain, as if the mad scientist accidentally transplanted the "wrong" or "bad" brain. This is hard to accept if you don't know the things that you are now learning.
Addiction Brain Science - So We Can All Understand It!
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