Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Psychoactive Drugs

Although there is no direct cause and effect relationship between a drug and a behavior, we do know that the chemical substances called psychoactive drugs, which are discussing in this blog post, alter our moods, consciousness, and behavior. The brain, it is believed, controls most of these functions. The human brain consists of several structures that are thought to be in control of different behaviors, feelings, and thoughts.

Psychoactive drugs affect these different structures. However, some drugs are more specific to some structures than others. For example, biochemical studies shown that certain types of drug receptors than others.
Normally psychoactive drugs have bad effect to our body so how to use psychoactive drugs safely is very difficult to apply.

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