Crack cocaine & key pleasure centres within the brain.

[Janus]

I was on a website reading about the effects of crack cocaine. One of the things that was explained was that crack affects the key pleasure centres within the brain. Does anyone have a theory why the human brain has these specific areas? What is their legitimate function/purpose?

[geared]

To aid the propagation of crack cocaine obviously.

[Mikes10]

Have a read of this and it may go someway to answering your question:

 

http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/endorphins.htm

[erebus]

From a particular point of view, the brain can be seen as a chemical factory, which produces chemicals for specific purposes. If you realise a bull, or a load of bull is rushing towards you, then almost instantly you are able to break the 4 minute mile. Female periods are triggered and stopped using such a system. The body communicates with its many parts and trillions of individual cells chemically. This is unique to all life forms, and not so with rocks for instance.

 

We live in a constructed cultural pool, where nature is mainly taboo, and jokes on bodily functions tend to amuse, so nature on a personal level can raise eyebrows.

 

Under the premise that for a social group to work, many sacrifices have to be made, and now for instance people communicate with friends and lovers through technology, as face to face encounters take a back seat. in some religious, tribal, and ritual practices people get high, very high and without taking anything. Dervishers twirl, Some do it through breathing, others meditation demonstrating there are many ways to experience unusual sensations. If these are repeated it suggests the participants enjoy the experience. So no ingestion through mouth or nose taking 2helpers" is necessary.

 

This suggests our brains all by themselves produce the required effect through manufacturing what the layperson would call drugs.

 

But is a sexually, socially repressed culture, such practices are not done, or encouraged, thus the urge for deeper sensation is re-routed through ingesting things, the most popular is alcohol. I personally fond the taste too bitter to swallow. Alcohol allows people to feel more relaxed without all the bother of mental or physical exercise, thus a short cut to pleasure. This is the case with most substances we are used to referring to as drugs. So Alcohol drug is good and anything else is bad, and therefore not legal. If dope was legalised, the effect on the drinks industry, would be devastating, a value shared by the tobacco industry, thus business interests tend to shape laws, and other excuses are found to back up such a fabrication. Remember smoking fags was once backed by doctors, paid by the tobacco lobby of course, which is an example of how lies can be taken as a truth.

 

If I showed people a way to get blindingly pi**ed without taking a drink, and this idea caught on, and was a set of exercises, that took 5 minutes, how long before all newspapers would say it is dangerous? How long before it was ruled as illegal because of the danger to health, families, etc? Its the same thing they have done throughout history regarding certain religions, as who wants profits, and business curtailed?

 

So it is possible to create the effect of heroin, coke, pain killers, dope, alcohol and all the rest, but it takes training. Some can stop pain, without drugs, and just try talking face to face with a mate who is getting ******, as you will find that being face in face, one starts to copy, mimic them, and after a few minutes appear to feel a bit different, lighter headed. The other way round, if a face to face confrontation happens then violence can easily erupt, which is the same process in reverse. We copy each others feelings subconsciously, it subliminal programming that is just one part of human nature.

 

But for most, keep filling the tills, of the pushers of drugs, in and out of the pubs, and conform, as who wants to be that different!

[LeMaquis]

I read a few years ago that some alcoholics and heroin addicts can hold down jobs but those addicted to crack can't because the addictiveness is so much more powerful.

[geared]

The high is much shorter lived as well, and the 'moreish' nature of it means you're never satisfied.