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Wednesday 1 May 2013

INFOGRAPHIC: YOUR BRAIN ON DRUGS


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Your Brain on Drugs
By Karl Fabricius,
Environmental Graffiti, 30 April 2013.

Almost 10 percent of Americans suffer from addiction to alcohol or other drugs. The infographic below offers this and other startling and enlightening info fixes: from the ways in which the brain registers pleasure on drugs, to addiction - and how compulsion can take over given the wrong environmental triggers.

Your Brain on Drugs

Top image: Left: Scan of a normal brain. Right: Scan of one affected by drug (methamphetamine) abuse. Image via Drug Free Homes.

[Source: Environmental Graffiti. Edited. Top image added.]


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