Psychoactive drugs rewire brain circuits for reward, executive function, and emotion regulation. Amphetamine-type stimulants like Tina hijack dopamine and noradrenaline pathways, creating slot-machine-like reinforcement that drives compulsive use.
In terms of brain functioning, the main areas that tend to be affected by drugs are related to reward processing, related to executive functioning, or it's the ability to regulate yourself, like regulating your behaviors, and also emotion regulation. And they might be changed in varying ways depending on the substance used, depending on the dosage, the frequency. You know, for example, in the case of of Tina or all the amphetamine-type substances, they're stimulants and they tend to affect the noradrenergic and the dopaminergic systems that have to do with reward processing. So that's why you get really hooked. It's the equivalent of a slots machine. Everyone, you get the, every time you get the rush, it feels so good that, you know, you, it becomes more and more prominent for you. Um,
