Your Brain on Drugs
Have you ever wondered what happens to your brain when you’re on drugs (including alcohol)?
The brain is a complex organ with few moving parts, but it processes countless pieces of information every day. It’s not easy to explain the workings of gray matter in detail, and then go on to show how heroin, cocaine, and other drugs affect it. Therefor, most of the public chooses to equate being high with having a foggy brain or a brain on turbo power.
Lucky for us, the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA) drugabuse.gov has prepared a page for teens to learn about this very topic. The Brain and Addiction page was written for a younger audience, which should make it easy to understand for adults. They explore the brain’s parts, how it works, and how different drugs make it send signals to senses and the rest of the body. Alcohol is not discussed, although it would fit well into the page.
Even if you don’t use drugs the odds are that you know someone that does, and this is good information to have anyway. Public awareness is important in our fight against the nation’s drug abuse problem.