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Most drugs affect the brain's reward circuit, which creates pleasure and floods it with dopamine. A functioning reward system will motivate an individual to do the things that are necessary for survival. The reward circuit is responsible for promoting pleasurable, but dangerous, behaviours such as drug use. The behavior is repeated by the individual.
The brain adapts to drugs by decreasing the ability of reward circuit cells to respond when an individual continues to use them. As long as an individual continues to use drugs, this will continue. Tolerance, also known as tolerance, is a process that reduces the person's experience with the drug. The individual might try to get the same high by taking more of the drug. These brain alterations can cause an individual to lose pleasure in activities that they used to enjoy, such as eating or sexual activity.
The brain's chemical and neural systems can be altered by long-term drug use. This can have a significant impact on cognitive and behavioural functions such as learning, judgement, decision making, stress, memory, learning, judgement, and behavior. Many drug addicts continue to use drugs despite knowing the potential negative consequences.