Illicit drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine are destructive due to their potent increase in dopamine followed by a crash. — Whalespan
Illicit drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine are destructive due to their potent increase in dopamine followed by a crash.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“Things like cocaine and amphetamine are disastrous for most people because they really so much dopamine and they create these closed loops where people then only crave the particular thing, cocaine, amphetamine that leads to those massive amounts of dopamine release.”
“which are things like cocaine, methamphetamine, et cetera. They are incredibly destructive for lives because of the way that they so potently increase dopamine and then the crash in dopamine that occurs later.”