Drug Effects: The Brain, The Body, And The Mind

Drugs affect nearly everybody on this planet. Drugs increase the crime rate in almost any area once introduced and can lead to poverty for some individuals. Drugs can tear communities and families apart, which many of us are oblivious to. Drugs also have many dangerous health risks for users as well as people who indirectly come in contact some drugs.

First of all, there is the Structural-Functional perspective way people view drug addiction as. The structural-functional perspective is the role the drugs do for the person or the weakening of the norms. It is the way they affect the person and what it does to them that makes them be addicted to drugs. For some people drugs relieves them. It takes them away from their problems from a while and they feel stress free and because of that feeling they receive from the drugs they like it and continue to take more and more. Those with this type of perspective well most likely disagree with this view of drug addiction and would want the problem to decrease.

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 our bodies produce less of what we need. Over a period of time this may produce very severe consequences on the body. With all the risks involved with drugs it’s a wonder why some people use them.

Drugs can impair a person's judgement. People are much more likely to make risky decisions while they are under the influence of drugs. For example, a person may have unprotected sex while under the influence of drugs. This can increase the risk of STDs.

Methamphetamine stimulates different parts of the brain, as shown in figure 2 of a PET scan. In Figure 2 it reveals that a methamphetamine addict has various parts of their brain more stimulated than the control, and other section of their brain were not stimulated. Imaging studies have shown changes in the activity of the dopamine system that are associated with reduced motor skills and impaired verbal learning (NIH,2). Methamphetamine affects the parts of the brain that control judgment, reward and memory. In addition, methamphetamine has an effect on the reward system of the brain, which makes the user feel pleasure, which is normally felt through things such as eating, sex, and drinking. Furthermore, Methamphetamine affects the limbic

This damage stems from the fact that people often abuse modern day chemicals or take certain kinds that make them feel “good”. A popular “feel good” chemical is LSD, which is mostly used for major hallucinations. Individuals crave hallucinations for their own reasons, but all have the same effects of gradually poisoning the psyche and the body. HowStuffWorks author Shanna Freeman explains in “How LSD Works” (2008) that the hallucinogen “can have serious negative effects, including paranoia, psychosis, and increased rates of suicide.” Also, she explains that LSD can trigger ‘acid flashbacks’, which occur years after using the chemical. Clearly, there are no true benefits of LSD usage. Unfortunately, after being introduced into society, the psychoactive chemical trickled down to the young, developing members of society. According to statistics, a survey given to 17,000 high school students revealed

The brain and body are still developing, and that makes them vulnerable to harmful effects of drug use. Using drugs interferes with the ability to learn, it disrupts the teaching environment, and affects other students as well. Drugs affects the skin, hair, nose, physique, chest, and a lot of other things. Acne, sores, scars, and dull skin,breaks out all over the face and body . Baldness occurs, the cartilage in the nose can be destroyed, the body can look thin and even skeletal. Children can stop growing, and males can develop breasts. Major things happen to the body when people abuse the body with drugs.

Today in America a lot of young people experiment with illegal drugs. Some people try drugs for recreational purposes, others are addicted to drugs and can't survive without them. Usually it all starts from recreational purposes, and people who can not control their recreation become a drug addicts. There are many different types of drugs, but all drugs are similar in that they change one's understanding of the environment, feelings, senses and mood. Some drugs cause physical addiction, which means that after several tries of the particular drug, the body requires that chemical in order to function. Some drugs destroy lives; people use drugs so much that it changes their personality and acceptance of environment,

Drugs are abused every day for reason most of the reasons are for pleasure or increased physical ability.

Drugs have been around for a very long time. They are used for a variety of reasons. Some of these reasons include relaxation, socialization, curiosity, stress relief, or a form of escapism. However, most people don’t know the threats and danger that it can cause to the body. In this paper, we are going to examine the changes that happen inside the brain due to the effects of different drugs. We will look closely at how drugs such as hallucinogens, ecstasy, cocaine, heroin, and cannabis affect an individual psychologically. I will explain the origin of the drugs, how a person feels while on the drug, how the drugs

It hurts the user physically and mentally. Drug abuse is often linked with many mental illnesses, including depression, anxiety, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Substance abuse and these mental illness both affect the same part of the brain, the reward part, or the part that controls pleasure. If you have a mental illness, it's not unlikely for you to have a drug addiction. And if you have a drug addiction, it's not unlikely for you to have a mental illness. It hurts the people involved, including family and friends, mostly emotionally. Because drugs mess with the brain, a family member or friend on drugs may do something that they would never even consider doing if they were sober. It puts a lot of stress on others, constantly worrying about the ones you care

We all remember the commercials saying that drugs will “scramble” your brain, but how exactly do drugs affect it? Well, when our brain becomes affected by drugs, we form pleasurable memories and associations with them, the places we were at, and the people we were with. This is one of the reasons why seeing a picture of someone else use, or going back to a place you used frequently, can trigger a desire to use. This is especially true in cocaine users. Glutamate is a neurotransmitter that’s altered by drug abuse. And when the optimal amount is altered by drug abuse, the brain attempts to compensate for this change. This can cause impairment in cognitive function. Also, there was a study of binge drinkers and regular non-binge drinkers during

It is inevitable that all drugs effect the human brain in different ways depending on the type of drug. For example, a drug that has a major effect on the human brain is ice which is a form of methamphetamine. The use of ice ultimately causes a surge in the brain chemical known as the neurotransmitters (Yodaa.org.au, 2017). When ice is taken the main neurotransmitter that is effected Dopamine (regulates pleasure, motivation, reward, attention and memory planning). Other neurotransmitters that are not effected as much are Noradrenaline (regulates attention as well as a persons mood to different things) and Serotonin (regulates cognition, appetite, sleep and learning abilities ) (Yodaa.org.au, 2017). When a person first takes drugs the first

Obviously, drugs abuse has the most effect on the individual. Drugs of any sort have pronounced impacts on a user’s personal life, mental and physical health as well as their

     Do people ever think about the consequences about drug abuse? Not many of us do but we all know what it does to us. Drugs are harmful to the brain and the body system itself; they affect the heart in many ways and because of that people become unconscious as to what their actions are. They do not realize how badly they can harm the community around them. Drugs are normally used by those who are not involved in activities such as, religious clubs, sports, etc. The users are normally stressed out with life and at times they just need something to set their minds aside from problems which occur in their everyday life. There are many reasons as to why and how drugs affect the community around the drug user