Viewpoint Dual Recovery Center

  Viewpoint Dual Recovery Center   Addiction is a chronic condition defined by obsessive or difficult-to-control substance seeking and use, despite adverse effects. These brain alterations don’t go quickly it remains in your brain for a long time. persons in recovery from drug use disorders are more likely to relapse after years of abstinence. Most drugs cause pleasure while also filling the brain's "reward circuit" with the chemical messenger dopamine. A fully functioning reward system encourages a person to repeat actions that are necessary for survival, such as eating and spending time with family. Dopamine surges in the reward circuit promote enjoyable but harmful behaviors like drug use, causing people to repeat the activity again and over. The brain adjusts by lowering the capacity of cells in the reward circuit to respond to drugs as a person continues to use them. To attain the same high, they can take more of the medication. These brain modifications typicall...