Psychology__Drugs_And_Abuse

Psychology: Drugs And Abuse Psychology: Drugs And Abuse Drugs and Abuse Abuse of drugs can have effects on the user even after the use of drugs has stopped. Different drugs produce different effects, depending on the user, type of drug, and severity of abuse. New research is done every day in the area of drug abuse that makes finding accurate results on the broad topic of drug abuse very difficult. From the most recent studies only can one find data that is presently accepted as correct. These numerous studies provide enough data to explain the effects of both legal and illegal drugs. To understand how drugs work, it is necessary to understand the changes that take place in different areas of the body when drugs take affect. Found in the brain are the synapses, the interaction point of two neurons (Perrine, 1996). The synapses in the brain are often the main target of a drug, altering the perception of something at the point of perception. When a drug is taken, it attaches itself to receptors in the brain, which ! have a pattern chemically similar to the neurotransmitters that send and receive messages in the brain. Perrine makes the analogy of a drug to receptors drugs, perrine, 1996, drug, alcohol, cocaine, one, nicotine, being, people, marijuana, even, effects, brain, been, abuse, united, states, heroin, found, addictive, user, taken, itself, caffeine, similar, legal, alcoholism, withdrawal, very, tobacco, time, symptoms, smoking, receptors, person