Drugs on the Brain

For all those who feel drugs are "cool", well your wrong, it really isn't cool and in fact it makes you look stupid. Drugs make you do stupid things from the affect it has on your brain. Drugs are obviously chemicals; they work by breaking into our communication system and interfering with the way we receive, send, and process information. Because of their different chemical structure, different drugs have distinctive affects. For example, marijuana and heroin, activate neurons because their chemical structure copies one of a neuron transmitter. These drugs have the ability to "fool" receptors, and then lock onto them thus activating the nerve cells. But they don't act like a natural neurotransmitter, so the neurons send abnormal messages throughout the brain. Drugs, like amphetamines, can cause nerve cells to release extreme amounts of natural neurotransmitters or prevent the normal recycling of these brain cells. Thus sending an exaggerated message in the brain, in the end causing a frenzy in the communication channels. These are just some of the effects on the brain and the other effects aren't any better. So why do you do it? For the high? To escape your problems? First of all you can get a high from running more than 20 minutes without the nasty side effects. And I am positive that you are not escaping your problems, you are just creating more!