Articles of category "Mechanisms of addiction effect"

We are all aware of the harm that narcotics can do, but not all of us know the mechanism of addiction and the effect of the drugs on our health and nervous system. Narcotics help to increase signaling in the brain between neurotransmitters, but affect the state of our physical and mental health, destroying the natural processes in the body. Nicotine in tobacco and alcohol has the same properties of destroying as opioids or, for example, stimulant amphetamine, though they are not so strong.

Narcotics that are in the opioid group such as morphine and methadone, depressants, alcohol, nicotine, some psychoactive drugs, and other psychotropic substances cause a physical addiction. The mechanism is connected to their property of mimicking endorphins and other hormones that are responsible for our pleasurable and positive perceptions.