The Brain
Your brain contains about 100 billion of these.
What are neurons?
Phenomenon in which individuals require more of the drug to receive the same effect.
Drugs imitate the brains natural chemical messengers and overstimulate this area.
What is the "reward circuit."
The two areas of the brain that are important in understanding addiction.
What are the frontal cortex and midbrain?
Brain plasticity, is a term that describes the brain's ability to
What is heal?
Dopamine receptors decrease to try to regulate the flood of dopamine in your system from drug use, causing you to become less sensitive to dopamine.
What is tolerance?
The part of the brain where addiction begins.
What is the midbrain?
This part of the brain keeps the midbrain "in check."
What is the Frontal Cortex?
The tendency for the body to seek "balance."
Homeostasis
This part of the brain responsible for decision making, morality, judgement, personality, understanding consequences, and moral meaning.
What is the frontal cortex?
This neurotransmitter plays a role in how we feel pleasure.
What is Dopamine?
This part of the brain is responsible for survival instinct.
What is the midbrain?
An inability to feel pleasure results in feelings of _____.
What is depression?
Addiction trains your brain to think that the drug =
What is survival?
When the drugs are not active in the brain, dopamine levels can drop, causing this.
What are withdrawal symptoms?
This staff member is the best.
Who is Doug?
Symptoms/signs of overdose.
Answers chills, chest pain, upset stomach, nausea...