How do drugs effect people?

Question

My friend tried ecstacy for the first time last weekend and is worried that it might effect her brain. If you try it once does it effect your brain? Also my ex-boyfriend was smoking weed every day can this effect his brain permanatly? Please advise.

Answer 1

I'm no expert on this matter as I've only a BS degree in professional Bio and Chem, but I could at least provide a little information I suppose. Drugs enter your body through a number of passages, all of which are connected to the bloodstream (your bodies highway for maintaining function). All nutrients, minerals, water, ect.... its all passed eventually through your bloodstream. The brain has a selective barrier known as the blood brain barrier, which enables it the ability to chemically select between molecules that enter its area.

No matter what you intake, it will all affect your brain with vast differences. It’s quite obvious when your friend is losing consciousness and or hyperactive that the drugs are most certainly affecting their brain absorbed into their bloodstream from their intestines.

Everything you intake into your body directly affects your brain through various sources. I've only done little research on the effects of smoking, a very weak drug in comparison. The pleasurable sensation onset by drug consumption is the release of dopamine within the brain from your endocrine glands.

Over consumption can cause many synaptic connections from one neuron to the next to be severed (non functional), ultimately making the individual less mentally capable. But, since some individuals experience heightened brain activity and thought, neuron growth can also be an outcome of taking drugs for some. It is just far less likely that ones senses allow them further functioning from the intake of drugs rather than less.

In any case, ask an expert if you desire a more detailed and tangible answer. The point is that drugs do directly affect your brain and can cause damage. But as once stated, these connections can be regained, but brain cells, once dead, are gone forever.

Answer 2

Well, ecstacy is never a good thing. Since this is her first time, let it be her last. It probably won't damage the brain as of now, but if she keeps doing it, on the long run it will deffinately hurt her brain. And to your ex-boyfriend, smoking weed is bad also. It'll gradually hurt him.

Answer 3

drugs make you HIGH

Hey hey hey smoke weed everyday!!

Answer 4

No permanant effects..

Answer 5

You should either convince him to stop or leave him. And yes it will.

Answer 6

drugs....i dont do drugs........*walks away slowly.....then makes a quick turn and runs like hell*......<----- thats the way drugs make people act....i would assume *grins*...