How / why does the body become physiologically dependent on a substance?
What happens to our bodies to create a physical substance dependence? Like the only way to prevent someone in severe withdrawal from dying is to give them more of the substance they are addicted to? It seems obvious to me that dopamine/serotonin etc have their effects in psychological dependence but shouldn’t our bodies react more positively to not being regularly hit with what is basically a poison/s?
In: Biology
What begins as behavioral use, experimental trial, deceives you eventually into a denial of your ability to control use. Meanwhile your repetition of use has already turned into a physical need without realization. That’s addiction.
Someone else can give you medical terms, but it’s easier than you think to change aspects of your body internally to become dangerously dependent.
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