2006-10-28 09:30:46 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
You are interfering BIG TIME with the normal transmissions in the brain function. You are altering the chemicals in the blood which prevent the nervous impulses from acting properly. Reaction time and judgement is slowed down and the ability to reason is lost, that is why some people become aggressive or depressed. What is happening in the brain is small to what is happening to your liver.
2006-10-28 09:44:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here are summaries of the effect of select street drugs on the brain:
Heroin
While heroin use starts out with a rush of pleasure, it leaves the use in a fog for many hours afterwards.
Heroin is a highly addictive opiate. Brain cells can become dependent on this drug to the extent that users need it in order to function in their daily routine.
Marijuana
The parts of the brain that control emotions, memory, and judgment are affected by marijuana.
It can not only weaken short-term memory, but can block information from making it into long term memory. It has also been shown to weaken problem solving ability.
Alcohol
Alcohol impairs judgment and leads to memory lapses. It can lead to blackouts. It distorts vision, shortens coordination, and in addition to the brain can damage every other organ in the body.
Cocaine
Use of cocaine can lead to feelings of paranoia and anxiety. Although often used to enhance sex drive, physical effect of cocaine on the receptors in the brain reduce the ability to feel pleasure (which in turn causes the dependency on the drug).
Inhalants
The effect on the brain is almost immediate. And while some vapors leave the body quickly, others will remain for a long time. The fatty tissues protecting the nerve cells in the brain are destroyed by inhalant vapors. This slows down or even stops neural transmissions. Effects of inhalants include diminished ability to learn, remember, and solve problems.
Ecstasy
Like most drugs, this one impairs memory and can cause paranoia, anxiety, and confusion.
Extended use of this amphetamine causes difficulty differentiating reality and fantasy, and causes problems concentrating. Studies have found that ecstasy destroys certain cells in the brain. While the cells may re-connect after discontinued use of the drug, they don't re-connect normally.
LSD
While some people use LSD for the sense of enhanced and vivid sensory experience, it can cause paranoia, confusion, anxiety, and panic attacks. Like Ecstasy, the user often blurs reality and fantasy, and has a distorted view of time and distance.
Road Rage is more difficult to analyse:
The limbic system, a network of neurons in the brain, is involved with emotions such as rage. One part of the limbic system, the amygdala, appears to be responsible for interpreting sensory information and sending appropriate messages to the hypothalamus. The hypothalamus releases neurotransmitters that stimulate the adrenal medullae to release the hormones adrenaline and noradrenaline into the bloodstream.
It has been suggested that a chronic deficit of a neurotransmitter called serotonin, which is thought to act as an inhibitor to violent impulses, may also play a role in outbursts of rage.
2006-10-29 04:16:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Drugs and road rage are different. Drugs affect the brain and change the way we percieve the world, and slow (usually) our responses.
But road rage is 'emotional hijacking'; we are flooded with emotion and lose rational control for a short time.
So in both cases we are not our 'usual' selves, but the cause is different.
2006-10-28 16:40:54 · answer #3 · answered by sarah c 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Alcohol and drugs should not be taken when driving. Alcohol is a drug and like all drugs they change the way you feel and the way you react to situations. You are asking a very broad question from drugs to road rage.
2006-10-28 16:42:47 · answer #4 · answered by peterhambelton 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
...CHAOS
...neurons [brain cells] start getting confused because they don't know this new substance and it seems to be getting in the way of them performing their duties....
2006-10-28 18:41:57 · answer #5 · answered by mørbidsшεεŧnεss 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
our brains are flooded with endorphins & somewhere a fuse blows.
2006-10-28 16:43:29 · answer #6 · answered by Chocoholic 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its all the same ...adrenaline rush...but alll at the same time NIRVANA!!
2006-10-28 16:32:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
we usually bang it on the floor when we fall over in a stupor but we feel nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-10-28 16:33:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
one big headache
2006-10-28 16:38:58 · answer #9 · answered by mad manc 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've no idea - but it's fun isn't it??
2006-10-28 16:38:16 · answer #10 · answered by Len 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋