Addicted Brain Changes

New research is overturning previous thoughts about how addiction permanently changes the brain. As this ScienCentral video explains, these new insights might lead to new ways of treating addicts. http://www.sciencentral.com/video/

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[ramagefreak]

These drugs would be part of the rehabilitation Chunky. Cutting cold turkey is simple not a option with many hard drugs. These guys are trying to create a system that will remove the feeling of wanting the drug. You will have a easier time dropping the habit without the horrible longing that is the addiction.

[cyphi1]

They need to study humans and non-drug addictions in order to get a true sense of what's happening here.

[EmoBoiii93]

@WoWJakfrost Ikr! nice butt right ? XD.

[mmedefarge]

@jongluvna They are a bunch of old fart, career druggies on their last legs (which I'd love to kick out from under them). No worry about "erections" LOL. I call them the "gang that couldn't walk straight" lately 2 are having respiratory problems & trouble breathing as well. (I understand that the menthol inhalers also contain a form of ready methamphetamine without having to reduce the contents as with sudafed). Thanks for the info.

[jongluvna]

@mmedefarge if you are smelling menthol, they probably are cooking benzadrex inhalers (similar to meth, but legal). effects are same as meth except it lasts shorter and its impossible to get an erection while under the influence. So it is considered a safer drug since it has no rape potential.

[mmedefarge]

@jongluvna Yes, I've since found that out. They're making meth, with a little crack thrown in (lighter odor, irritating to have to breathe but not painful as are the meth fumes), It smells sometimes as though they're cooking menthol or a sickly-sweet perfume or cheap deodorizer. It will get into your clothes, hair & curtains though, so I wear a head covering at all times & deodorize & air out my clothes, towels (heavier meth fumes do likewise). They smoke crack but most time spent making M.

[jongluvna]

@mmedefarge meth, not crack production produces harmful fumes.

[mmedefarge]

When they find that substance, please put it in the drinking water so that the crack factory in operation in the floor below my apartment will go out of business & I'll be able to breathe air without toxic fumes. The cops appear to be doing nothing. These old druggies will die of strokes & coronaries before they bust them.

[innergold1000]

The limbic system of the brain is responsible for survival and addiction. Addicts have trained their brain to utilize the substance, drugs, alcohol, sex, etc. that they need it to survive. Once a person learns how to retrain the limbic region of the brain, long-term sobriety results.