UNDERSTANDING ADDICTION AS A FORM OF INDUCED PHYSICAL DISABILITY

Addiction is considered a brain diseases because it has a biological nature. The human brain is made up of neuron. Neurons that perform the same functions normally group themselves together forming bands of up to four feet long. The neurons themselves are not connected to one another. Rather there is usually space between neurons called synapses.

Previously, people though that neurons communicate via election currents that spills across these gaps called synapses in the same way an electric transformer works during the step up or step down process. However today it is now known that neurons do not communicate via sparks of electricity, but through chemicals known as neurotransmitters.  The constant exchange of neurotransmitters makes it possible for the brain to send messages through vast chains of neurons and direct our thoughts, feelings and behavior.

A constants abuse drugs, alcohol and other substances normally disrupts the normal triggering and stopping of these neurotransmitters thereby disrupting how the brain detects the environmental stimuli and how the body is supposed to respond to it. In other words, addiction is a form of induced abnormality of the brain just like some can fatally fracture your leg or hand thereby disrupting the normal functioning of the body.

In the brain, the drugs and alcohol induces this disability by:

• Flood the brain with excess neurotransmitters.
• Stop the brain from making neurotransmitters.
• Bind to receptors in place of neurotransmitters.
• Block neurotransmitters from entering or leaving neurons.
• Empty neurotransmitters from parts of the cells where they're normally stored, causing the neurotransmitters to be destroyed.
• Increase the number of receptors for certain neurotransmitters.
• Make some receptors more sensitive to certain neurotransmitters.
• Make other receptors less to neurotransmitters (leading to tolerance).
• Interfere with the reuptake system by preventing neurotransmitters from returning to the sending neuron.

The point I am making here is that a constant use of addictive drugs and substances is similar to taking a hammer and consistently breaking bones in part of your body thereby making yourself a disable