Eli5 How do drugs work

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How do drugs, especially alcohol, affect your brain so that you do and think things that you would never do when you’re not under the influence

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there are two types: depressants and stimulants

Some think alcohol is a stimulant… It’s actually a depressant.

There are a lot of mechanisms in the brain affected by drugs… GABA (how relaxed you are), serotonin (how happy you feel), dopamine (you feel accomplished), adrenaline (you feel a little bit of a high). And all addictive drugs have 1 thing in common: they all affect dopamine.

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