What is Addiction? - Intoxication: What Goes on in the Mind?
Summary
- A simple way of understanding how intoxication can be dangerous.
- Drugs alter activity in many different brain systems.
- By changing brain activity, intoxication changes;
- the personality and the person's grasp on reality, and,
- this changes their behaviour
- There are the ordinary parts of the personality and deeper parts.
- Deeper parts include systems that look after sensitive and important parts of our personality (eg. capacity for love and friendship).
- Intoxication can cause a permanent change in the deeper parts which the person is not aware of.