What Drugs do to your brains

[Sebdeas]

I found a flash video like thing, from the University of Utah.
It explains how drugs make you feel the way you feel when you have taken them.
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units...rugs/mouse.cfm

Note:
It's not everything that happens in your brain when you've taken drugs.
But mostly the reward pathway in your brains.

[Spurius]

All synthetic drugs that do something to your brain, have natural cousins that are already in place. Otherwise, they couldn't work.

So your body has been pumping opiate-like substances into your brain without you even knowing you were doing dope.

In fact, without natural 'body' drugs you'd not feel or do very much.

Doing chemical drugs is just like in sports, you're basically cheating nature, nothing more.

All the social misery that flows from drug abuse has very little to do with the substances themselves. They are not evil without a context, I mean.

[removeduser_426582376423734]

Aren't these natural drugs why we feel good when we orgasm? Or when we're working out?

[Spurius]

Or get angry, or feel possessive. Or have the feeling something's 'right' without being able to tell why exactly.

We have in essence 2 brains, one basically only speaks through emotions - via chemicals.

Drugs can influence our feelings and perceptions directly, unlike other influences, like movies about them.

[Ummagumma]

Oxytocin and prolactin are special friends. If you could buy them, no one would do anything. Ever again.

[Ummon]

Oxytocin on the other hand is a good candidate for preventive treatment of personality disorders.

"Mom! My school buddies just beat the crap out of me for the umpteenth time!"

"Don't worry so, we just go to the med-bot so that he can inject oxytocin in your amygdala...".

Not exactly my kind of medicine, but in serious situations it might help.