Addiction to Drugs is a Method of Self Treatment for Missing Neurotransmitters
Channel: BioBalance Healthcast
Date: 2017-03-10

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1.“The defining feature of addiction is the compulsive, out of control drug use, despite negative consequences.”
2. “Addictive drugs induce pleasurable states or relief from distress, thus motivating repeated drug use.”
3. “Drugs of abuse are both rewarding and reinforcing. Rewards are stimuli that the brain interprets as intrinsically positive, and reinforcing stimuli are those that increase the probability that behaviors paired with them will be repeated”
4. “Repeated use of addictive drugs produces multiple unwanted changes in the brain that may lead to tolerance, sensitization, dependence, and addiction”
5. Drugs of abuse cause addiction by inducing a range of molecular and cellular adaptations in several brain reward regions, which are becoming increasingly well known.”

“Drug addiction is a progressive and often fatal behavioral syndrome characterized by compulsive drug seeking and consumption despite serious negative consequences. The drug-centered existence of addicts can cost them their jobs, personal relationships, financial standing, happiness and, in some cases their lives.”