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=What makes people so addicted to drugs that their life revolves around it?=

People are addicted to drugs because of the chemical changes in the brain. This is the only reason for drug addiction. As explained here, teenagers who have abusive parents, want to fit in, or are generally unhappy with their lives only take the drug. They do not become addicted to it because of these reasons, but because of the chemical changes in the brain.

Researchers have observed that drugs cause chemical changes in the brain that lead to addiction. Drugs, which are chemicals, change the way nerve cells receive, send, and interpret signals. These chemicals also overstimulate a "reward" nerve in the brain. Also, some drugs change areas of the brain that are critical to judgment, decision-making, learning and memory, and behavior control. Drugs also cause nerve cells to release larger amounts of dopamine, which control movement, emotion and motivation. The brain handles the increased dopamine by reducing the good feeling. This causes a person to seek out more of this drug and eventually get addicted. This is proof that researchers' observations of chemical changes in the brain cause addiction. Even though some researchers say that peer pressure, abusive parents, and bad childhoods will become drug addicts. This is not true. The chemicals in drugs are necessarily the only reason people become addicted to drugs. Peer pressure only causes someone to take the drug to fit in. This doesn't necessarily make that person addicted to the drug, it just causes them to take it. The same holds true for teenagers with abusive parents, and those who try drugs because they are bored. Also, children who have alcoholic parents will only start drinking alcohol if they see alcohol or their parents drinking alcohol a lot. Even so, this only makes them try it, not become alcoholics. So, even though some researchers say that all these things cause addiction, they don't.

There are no other reason why people get addicted to drugs. The chemical changes in the brain causes people to become addicted to drugs. People who want to fit in, are bored, or unhappy with their lives just take the drug. This does not make them addicted to that drug. It is the chemical changes in the brain that causes a person to become so addicted to drugs.

Facts cited from: http://www.drugabuse.gov/infofacts/understand.html http://ezinearticles.com/?Drug-Addiction---Is-it-Hereditary?&id=2513178