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SurReality
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Re: A collection of Meth Documentaries [Re: pizzeria]
#22938790 - 02/23/16 08:18 PM (8 years, 9 days ago) |
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pizzeria said: I don't mean a meth addict either by don't start if you aren't already an addict. I mean addict in mindset ... People as u said r addicted to beer etc... but to you folks who aren't full blown addict personality type. Good chance it will make you one and my exp is unless u start as a child basically your gonna have a downward spiral hit rock bottom. the later in life you start the harder it will be to learn to manage your addiction and still function respectably
Someone has experience with self control
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Re: A collection of Meth Documentaries [Re: SurReality]
#22938895 - 02/23/16 08:48 PM (8 years, 9 days ago) |
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SurReality said: OP I'm curious how did you kick the meth habit? .
I am the OP and I actually have never tried meth.
I do know people who have done it and are not addicts.
However it is easily one of the most likely drugs to become addicted to from recreational use.
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Re: A collection of Meth Documentaries [Re: Moonshoe]
#22939533 - 02/24/16 12:41 AM (8 years, 9 days ago) |
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One of how many other addictions?
What isn't addictive? How many habits do you have that will likely be repeated later in life?
What are the stats on these addictive drugs and what are the factors?
Cause I know psychs weed cigs coffee sleeping pills and beer off the top of my head are far more attached to me than meth.
I really don't get why it's considered so addictive or how people abuse it like some do, cause it's not fun to abuse but is as satisfying productively as lsd is spiritually.
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Re: A collection of Meth Documentaries [Re: SurReality]
#22940240 - 02/24/16 09:43 AM (8 years, 8 days ago) |
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SurReality said:
I really don't get why it's considered so addictive or how people abuse it like some do
"Methamphetamine increases the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine, leading to high levels of that chemical in the brain. Dopamine is involved in reward, motivation, the experience of pleasure, and motor function. Methamphetamine’s ability to release dopamine rapidly in reward regions of the brain produces the euphoric “rush” or “flash” that many users experience. Repeated methamphetamine use can easily lead to addiction—a chronic, relapsing disease characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use."
Here’s how meth users become addicted:
Dopamine affects the brain’s limbic system, the parts responsible for emotion, learning and memory. The first few times a meth user gets high, it’s a conscious choice. The decision to take meth is made in the brain’s prefrontal cortex, which handles voluntary actions.
By the third use or so, research shows, the decision to take meth moves to an entirely different part of the brain, the hind brain, which controls involuntary functions, such as breathing.
“We often see people who’ve become addicted after one or two uses,” says Jim Peck, a clinical psychologist and researcher at UCLA’s Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, who has worked for years with meth addicts. “It’s that powerful"
“Meth actually changes your brain,” Peck says. “The brain elevates your need for the drug to the same level as anything else you have to do to survive, like breathing. It starts sending signals saying, ‘You have got to get more of that stuff right now.’”
After a meth user permanently quits the drug, it can take as long as two years for his brain to go back to the way it was before.
http://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/local/crime/article3239864.html
"Dr. Nora Volkow, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, says that the way a brain becomes addicted to a drug is related to how a drug increases levels of the naturally-occurring neurotransmitter dopamine, which modulates the brain's ability to perceive reward reinforcement. The pleasure sensation that the brain gets when dopamine levels are elevated creates the motivation for us to proactively perform actions that are indispensable to our survival (like eating or procreation). Dopamine is what conditions us to do the things we need to do. Using addictive drugs floods the limbic brain with dopamine—taking it up to as much as five or 10 times the normal level. With these levels elevated, the user's brain begins to associate the drug with an outsize neurochemical reward. Over time, by artificially raising the amount of dopamine our brains think is "normal," the drugs create a need that only they can meet.
"If a drug produces increases in dopamine in these limbic areas of the brain, then your brain is going to understand that signal as something that is very reinforcing, and will learn it very rapidly," says Volkow. "And so that the next time you get exposed to that stimuli, your brain already has learned that that's reinforcing, and you immediately—what we call a type of memory that's conditioning—will desire that particular drug." Over time, the consistently high levels of dopamine create plastic changes to the brain, desensitizing neurons so that they are less affected by it, and decreasing the number of receptors. That leads to the process of addiction, wherein a person loses control and is left with an intense drive to compulsively take the drug."
http://bigthink.com/going-mental/your-brain-on-drugs-dopamine-and-addiction
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Re: A collection of Meth Documentaries [Re: Moonshoe]
#22940572 - 02/24/16 11:41 AM (8 years, 8 days ago) |
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ICE STORM 60 MINUTES AUSTRALIA PT 1
ICE STORM 60 MINUTES AUSTRALIA PT 2
Ice: ABC NEWS Australia
This one is particularly well balanced ^
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