The Science Behind Addiction
Throughout human evolution, activities that brought a release of dopamine were the ones that also kept us alive or contributed to reproduction, but now addictive drugs have the power to hijack the brain’s natural dopamine balance. Take a look at how synapses in the nervous system respond to different classes of drugs.
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