Dual Diagnosis Treatment Center in Hazel Dell
The hallmark of addiction is an inability to quit. Absolutely not when doing so puts your health at jeopardy. No, not when it creates financial, emotional, and other kinds of difficulties for you or the people you care about. Even if you wish to stop using drugs, you can find that the need to get and use them consumes every waking moment of the day.
In addition, physical dependency and tolerance are not the same thing as addiction. If you suddenly quit using a drug after developing a physical dependent on it, you may experience withdrawal symptoms. A state of tolerance develops when a given dose of a drug loses some of its efficacy over time.
Your mood is affected by happiness. Your brain is programmed for happiness and to encourage you to find more. To keep you doing these things over-and-over.
You may become addicted to drugs that target the reward system of your brain. Your brain receives a lot more dopamine. Pure joy can only describe the experience. For the purpose of recapturing that feeling you take the drug again.