Why do drugs get you addicted?

Subject: Why do drugs get you addicted?

Date: Wed Jul 23 11:21:36 1997
Posted by Thomas Hall
Grade level: 4-6
School: Oak Cottage JMI
City: Solihull State/Province: No state entered.
Country: UK
Area of science: NeuroScience
ID: 869674896.Ns

Message:

At school we learned that drugs like cocane and heroin make you addicted to them. We also learned about drugs like caffene and alcohol which are legal but make you addicted. And about paracetamol and asprin which are also drugs.

Why do some drugs make you addicted and not others? Does everything addictive work in the same way - what happens to your brain when you are addicted to something? And what about when you try to stop being addicted?

Can you really be addicted to chocolate or computer games?

Thankyou

Submitted by big sister robin for Thomas aged 9 (he wrote the question by himself)

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