Some people claim that addiction is a brain disease. What is the evidence for this claim?
What will be an ideal response?
• Researchers can record brain changes that occur as a person experiences a high or rush from the drug as well as the low associated with craving, as happens with cocaine.
• Scientists have found that chronic drugs abuse alters the brain's anatomy and chemistry and that these changes can last for months or years after the individual has stopped using drugs.
• Cocaine's chief biological activity is in preventing the reabsorption of the neurotransmitter dopamine. Dopamine is the "feel good" transmitter that triggers a drug user's high.
• Methamphetamine also affects brain structures that contain the chemical dopamine.
• Addiction is a chronic brain disease with a strong genetic component.
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