Sonny From The Story Sonny s Blues - 1283 Words

Talk about Sonny from the story Sonny’s blues, it is mention so many families who are experiencing situations where drugs takes kids out of their families, and then, parents don’t know how to bring them back, or how to recover them. Unfortunately we are living in a blind society, where we rather give money to young people instead for help them to find a path for a better life, it is why the take money as granted, because they are not working for it, they do not really appreciate the real value, and use it buying drugs is really simple. Great young minds locked themselves in an addition from where they cannot escape and many of them have given up to their dreams, and completely waste their talent just because nobody could give them a hand†¦show more content†¦When activated at normal levels, this system rewards our natural behaviors. Overstimulating the system with drugs, however, produces euphoric effects, which strongly reinforce the behavior of drug useâ€⠀teaching the user to repeat it. (1) Drugs are chemicals that affect the brain by tapping into its communication system and interfering with the way neurons normally send, receive, and process information. Some drugs, such as marijuana and heroin, can activate neurons because their chemical structure mimics that of a natural neurotransmitter. This similarity in structure â€Å"fools† receptors and allows the drugs to attach onto and activate the neurons. Although these drugs mimic the brain’s own chemicals, they don’t activate neurons in the same way as a natural neurotransmitter, and they lead to abnormal messages being transmitted through the network. Other drugs, such as amphetamine or cocaine, can cause the neurons to release abnormally large amounts of natural neurotransmitters or prevent the normal recycling of these brain chemicals. This disruption produces a greatly amplified message, ultimately disrupting communication channels. Sonny describes in his own words all this neurologic reactions, expressing his feeling when he consumed drugs. He said he felt submerged in a deep hole where nobody could rescue him, but also nobody could really understand him, because he was walking alone, just the shadows of his own fears and