The topic that was an eye opener to me
was how drug mechanisms work. When you are a teenager and think that you know
it all is when we (teenagers) commit many mistakes that lead up to problems
when we are grownups. We do not look at the consequences that it may have if we
snort that bump of cocaine or if we take a hit of that joint and taking it to
the extreme and shooting up heroin. If we knew that by using cocaine which is a
stimulant drug and that it increases excitement and activity while it elevates
your mood and then decreasing fatigue. And that it stimulates dopamine synapses
in the nucleus accumbens which is located at the base of the forebrain and is a
collection of neurons that are thought to play many roles in our brain such as
pleasure addiction and fear and by increasing the presence of the dopamine in
the presynaptic terminal it decreasing the reuptake and prolonging the effects
of released dopamine. The excess dopamine in the synapse washes away and never
comes back you can't replace it. Marijuana on the other hand is a depressant
and that it may cause memory loss to those who are new or heavy users. Even
though marijuana has been legalized to medical purposes teenagers use it to get
high not knowing the risks they are taking and the consequences it will bring
them in the future.
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