Drug and your brain and effective drug treatment from addiction in Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer and other parts of Alberta by Options Okanagan Treatment Center in Kelowna, British Columbia treating drug addiction and recovery.
What Really Happens To Your Brain When You Take Drugs?
Drugs are a group of chemicals that interact with the brain’s communication system. In fact, they can disrupt how the nerve cells send, receive and process vital information. This is done in two ways such as by overstimulating the brain’s “reward circuit” and by imitating the brain’s natural chemical messengers.
Drugs like heroin and marijuana consist of a similar structure to the chemical messengers of the brain, which are called neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters are naturally produced in the brain. This similarity permits the chemicals in the drug to fool the brain’s receptors thereby forcing the nerve cells to send abnormal messages.
Methamphetamine or cocaine does it by causing the nerve cells to released abnormally larger amounts of neurotransmitters. It prevents the natural recycling process of the brain chemicals, which is mandatory for shutting off the signals between neurons. This disruption will amplify the message process thereby affecting the normal communication patterns of the brain.
All drugs would target the brain’s reward system either directly or indirectly. This is done by flooding the circuit with dopamine. In fact, dopamine is an important neurotransmitter present in the regions of the brain that control emotions, feelings of pleasure, movement and motivation. Over stimulation of the system will help produce euphoric effects in response to the aforementioned drugs. This will create a pattern that teaches individuals to repeat the abuse of drugs.
When the person continue to abuse the drug, the brain will respond to this dopamine surge by producing less dopamine or by reducing its dopamine receptors. This is why the user needs to keep on abusing the drug to bring his/her dopamine levels back to normal. If not, they have to use more drugs to achieve a dopamine high.
If the drug abuse continues for a longer period of time, it will cause various changes in other areas of the brain or circuits of it. Brain image studies conducted on drug addicted individuals have shown changes in areas of the brain, which are critical to decision making, judgement, memory and learning. These changes can persuade the individual to become addicted to the particular drug.
Options Okanagan Drug Treatment Centers in Kelowna, Salmon Arm and Vancouver, British Columbia – Men and Women are recovering and healing from Alcohol and Drug Abuse at our treatment center here in the Okanagan right now.
Our unique and distinctive drug treatment program allows men and women to come in from Calgary as well as Edmonton as we offer airport pickup.
Numerous clients come to us from Calgary and Edmonton and other locations in Alberta and even other provinces for Opiate addiction treatment, meth drug treatment, many other drug and alcohol addictions for rehabilitation because of the uniqueness of our treatment center.
Our Treatment Location:
Options Okanagan Drug Treatment Center
551 Sherrydale Crescent, Kelowna, British Columbia, V1V 2E6
Toll Free Phone Number : 1-855-335-0331
