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What is a drug and further information about the different types of drugs from Psychoacive drugs to Hallucinogens and the various kinds of drugs.
“This is the real story of ‘this is your brain on drugs,’ but one that provides a refreshing, convincing alternative to the widespread traditional disease-model view of addiction.
One pathway important to understanding the effects of drugs on the brain is called the reward pathway. The reward pathway involves several parts of the brain, some of which are highlighted in this image: the ventral tegmental area (VTA), the nucleus accumbens, and the prefrontal cortex.
There are behaviours and situations that get presented in relationships that signal that you need to opt out or at minimum, slow down and address the situation before proceeding. What I’m about to explain are what typically make you incompatible, or signal a particularly unhealthy relationship or that there are things that you need to […]
Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) is a type of talking treatment. It's based on cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), but has been adapted to help people who experience emotions very intensely. It's mainly used to treat problems associated with borderline personality disorder (BPD), but it has ...
Norfolk Schools Safeguarding Website. This website aims to give school staff advice and guidance on the arrangements required to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in school.
How do drugs produce pleasure? Pleasure or euphoria—the high from drugs—is still poorly understood, but probably involves surges of chemical signaling compounds including the body's natural opioids (endorphins) and other neurotransmitters in parts of the basal ganglia (the reward circuit).
Please note - this is an archived publication. Commissioner’s foreword. This publication is one in a series designed to stimulate debate about contemporary government challenges.
Update: Dr Robert Sapolsky has done a TED talk which puts these factors of human behaviour into great context, focused around the timeframes with which they have an effect. Check it out
We suggest that six common errors made by policy makers prevent the successful implementation of health-related behaviour change. • We argue that the extensive body of evidence of how to bring abut behaviour change is consistently ignored.

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