How does chemical dependency work?
In: Biology
You put drugs in your body which will affect the brain in some way and your brain always wants to go to homeostasis.
For example I was addicted to Kratom. My brain got used to the kratom coming and attaching to the opioid receptors as an agonist (correct if wrong) so the brain doesn’t release as many chemicals to go to those receptors.
This is where you feel shit because when nothing comes then well it throws everything off and makes you feel fucking awful.
It’s similar concept but with other drugs say alcohol. You drink a lot and alcohol gets made to GABA which makes you relax and such. If you constantly drink your brain has loads of GABA going around so it reduces its own GABA output.
You stop drinking and you feel anxious and on edge because now you have a deficit of GABA.
Sorry if I didn’t explain well my first ELI5
So you meet a special someone. At first you like how they look. For reasons you decide to hang out with them. You enjoy it, and feel good afterwards. So you do it again. Eventually you feel like you need them. Almost every single person in the world you could enjoy with the right circumstances and in the right amount. But sometimes relationship turns unhealthy and become bad for you. Eventually you might have to quit talking to them for some reason and it’ll probably hurt. You can get carried away with a person just like working out too much, video games, food etc. I personally think that’s the concept that sets most addicts down the path, and the one that causes relapse.
On top of that your body’s kind of like a closed system that’s in equilibrium and trying to maintain equilibrium. A drug has a direct affect on the system and the body responds by doing less of whatever jobs the drugs are doing. When you stop doing the drugs the change in equilibrium is much faster than the body can adjust to. That’s the biology part of it.
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