DRUGS + YOUR BRAIN

The article "Drugs + Your Brain" is about different types of drugs and addictions that take over your brain and may control you to do the wrong things. In the article it says, " Abusing drugs directly affects how your brain functions. This can lead to serious physical and emotional health problems." 

Memory meltdown, meaning that certain drugs can lead to shortage of memory. Abuse of marijuana can make it hard for you to remember what you said or did, and impossible to perform complicated tasks, since it affects the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus-- brain areas responsible for thinking and memory. Marijuana and alcohol can affect a person's coordination and impair athletic and driving ability because of the effects on brain areas such as the cerebellum. 
 Abusing cocaine, methamphetamine, steroids, and other drugs can cause anxiety and hostility by affecting many different parts of the brain, including the amygdala, which is a part of the brain that controls emotion and motivation. 

I agree that abusing drugs does much damage to your brain and different parts of it. People who use and abuse drugs would never think that because they use it with out over dosing that they are not hurting themselves in anyway. I have people in my family who smoke marijuana and I see the side affects of shortage memory. Memory Meltdown, Out of Control, A Threat to Mission Control, And Addiction are signs of abuse of drugs. Abusing drugs leads to all kinds of wrong things and puts all the wrong people in danger. People need to soon realize what they are doing to themselves is going to soon affect them in ways they can't imagine.