How does chemical dependency work?
In: Biology
You put drugs in your body which will affect the brain in some way and your brain always wants to go to homeostasis.
For example I was addicted to Kratom. My brain got used to the kratom coming and attaching to the opioid receptors as an agonist (correct if wrong) so the brain doesn’t release as many chemicals to go to those receptors.
This is where you feel shit because when nothing comes then well it throws everything off and makes you feel fucking awful.
It’s similar concept but with other drugs say alcohol. You drink a lot and alcohol gets made to GABA which makes you relax and such. If you constantly drink your brain has loads of GABA going around so it reduces its own GABA output.
You stop drinking and you feel anxious and on edge because now you have a deficit of GABA.
Sorry if I didn’t explain well my first ELI5
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