{"id":578,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","slug":"drug-dependency?","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"Drug dependency?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 153);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Drug Dependency?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/Reward-crcuit.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 257px; height: 258px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">In addition to exerting their effects through molecular mechanisms, these drugs intervene at various points in the brain&rsquo;s central reward circuit (see above diagram). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">It is through this combination of effects on the reward circuit and on other brain structures that a drug induces the behaviors and specific subjective sensations. <br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Because neural communication is so plastic, a new equilibrium will gradually be established that includes the psychoactive substances from the outside. It is this adaptability of the brain that causes tolerance, dependency, and withdrawal (see below). <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Dopamine is not the only molecule involved in this process of drug co-dependency.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Tolerance is a mechanism that gradually reduces the effects of a drug. The adaptable brain&rsquo;s downside is that it drives drug addicts to increase their dosage to try to feel again the intoxicating effects felt with their first &ldquo;fix&rdquo;. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The plasticity of the human brain facilitates the creation of dependencies. When chronic consumers of a certain drug suddenly stop taking it, their neurons have to learn to cope with a new biochemical environment. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">As a result, people experience discomfort and cravings. To overcome their dependency, they must go through a period of withdrawal until their neurons have relearned how to function without the drug. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/userfiles\/image\/2014%20pics\/DNA-DeltaFosB.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"242\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Addiction affects DNA <a href=\"?p=620\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">transcription factors<\/span><\/a> like <a href=\"https:\/\/counselorssoapbox.com\/2015\/02\/11\/why-people-become-addicted-deltafosb\/\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Delta-FosB<\/span><\/a><br \/>\nPast life Programs also determine the use of transcription factors<br \/>\nWithdrawal is needed to allow your system to remove those factors<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Recent research experiments were able to show that the gene Maged1 controls the release of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The gene was also effective in the prefrontal cortex, the area of the brain most affected by cocaine abuse, and not in the neurons producing dopamine in the VTA.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><a href=\"?p=579\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>read more &#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drug Dependency? In addition to exerting their effects through molecular mechanisms, these drugs intervene at various points in the brain&rsquo;s central reward circuit (see above diagram). It is through this combination of effects on the reward circuit and on other brain structures that a drug induces the behaviors and specific subjective sensations. 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