Research Paper On How Drugs Affect The Brain

Drugs, how do they affect your brain. Drugs can affect your brain in a few different ways. On one hand certain drugs can imitate the brain's natural chemical messengers. On the other hand other drugs can over stimulate the "reward circuit" of the brain.

Depending on the drug that is taken either by injection, eating, smoke, etc. also depending on the chemical structure of the drug, it will either mimic the brain's natural chemical messengers, or over stimulate the "reward circuit" of the brain. Drugs like marijuana and heroin are drugs the mimic neurotransmitter that naturally occurs in our bodies.

Drugs like cocaine an methamphetamine cause nerves to release too much dopamine "a natural neurotransmitter", or prevent the normal