The Science of Addiction

The idea of drugs was meant to be used for medical purposes, such as pain medicine or when you need it in the cold and flu seasons. People have come to be misusing these drugs to feel better, which only hurt themselves. When using drugs in a harmful way people can become addicted to it and cause very serious, permanent damage in places like the brain, lungs, and heart. Each time the person uses a drug the brain has to adjust to get used to it and the brain will continue to adjust the more they use until it can't take anymore and the user dies. Some ways of injecting drugs, are pills, needles, pipes, and drinks.