When you accomplish a small task your brain rewards you by releasing endorphins to help build a habit of accomplishment. Now with heroin, it works almost the same. As heroin enters the receptors you feel high for a while but at the same time, you are building this accomplishment habit at a larger scale. This creates a strong urge to keep getting that feeling of a high. “As a result, dopamine’s impact on the reward circuit of the brain of someone who abuses drugs can become abnormally low, and that person’s ability to experience any pleasure is reduced.”(National Institute on Drug Abuse, 21) The more the opioid drug is being used the more tolerance they have to it. As they build a tolerance to the drug the daily actions that triggered the release of endorphins will no longer satisfy them creating a feeling of depression and lifelessness. This is what causes the urge to keep consuming heroin even though they know is bad for their well being. High eventually starts to feel low so the drug user consumes more drugs to feel an even higher high which builds the
When you accomplish a small task your brain rewards you by releasing endorphins to help build a habit of accomplishment. Now with heroin, it works almost the same. As heroin enters the receptors you feel high for a while but at the same time, you are building this accomplishment habit at a larger scale. This creates a strong urge to keep getting that feeling of a high. “As a result, dopamine’s impact on the reward circuit of the brain of someone who abuses drugs can become abnormally low, and that person’s ability to experience any pleasure is reduced.”(National Institute on Drug Abuse, 21) The more the opioid drug is being used the more tolerance they have to it. As they build a tolerance to the drug the daily actions that triggered the release of endorphins will no longer satisfy them creating a feeling of depression and lifelessness. This is what causes the urge to keep consuming heroin even though they know is bad for their well being. High eventually starts to feel low so the drug user consumes more drugs to feel an even higher high which builds the