The Consequences Of Addiction

Addiction is a brain disease that is a compulsive engagement in a rewarding stimuli, despite adverse consequences. There are many stages that lead addiction such as the pleasure principle, development of tolerance, and compulsion (Rodgers, 1994).
The brains pleasure principles registers all pleasures the same way, from psychoactive drug, a monetary reward, a sexual encounter, or a satisfying meal. In the brain, pleasure releases a neurotransmitter called dopamine. Dopamine is released into the nucleus accumbens, what neuroscientists refer to as the brain’s pleasure center. Laying down memories of this rapid sense of satisfaction, creates a conditioned response to certain stimuli (Leshner, 1997).
Over time, the brain adapts the sought-after