• Question: What happens to the system if you take drugs?

    Asked by 379furk43 to Chris, Joanne, Kathryn, Kieran, Sarah on 13 Nov 2017.
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      Chris Werner answered on 13 Nov 2017:

      Drugs alter the way nerve cells can send, receive, and process information. They do this by imitating the brain’s natural chemical messengers, by over-stimulating the “reward circuit” of the brain hence one gets ‘high’, flooding the brain with excess chemicals, and bind to receptors in the brain. In short though nothing good! Medication is fine to ease pain, but too much kills you!

    • Photo: Kathryn Schoenrock

      Kathryn Schoenrock answered on 14 Nov 2017:

      There are lots of different types of drugs🙄 many of them are very good for you and help you recover from illnesses or diseases. Many ‘recreational drugs’ are actually old sedatives or pain killers that were used in hospitals but are too addictive for continued use. Addictive drugs are good to relieve pain but can actually really hurt people if they abuse them. We treat addiction as a disease because everyone responds to the drugs in a unique way, and it is a hard thing to recover from.

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