Drugs and Brain Season 1 Episode 1 Opiates and Tranquilisers: From Pleasure to Addiction 2005
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The human body manufactures its own painkillers to ensure survival when injured. This program shows how opium and its derivatives, heroin and morphine, hijack that natural pain-numbing ability. Illustrating the brain's ability to alter its own chemistry when attacked by drugs, the program depicts the process by which brain receptors become desensitized and thus addicted. Tranquilizers - and the potentially lifelong physical dependency and psychological problems they can cause - are also studied.
- Released: 2005-10-11
- Runtime: 60 minutes
- Genre: Documentary
- Stars:
- Director: Matthias Sanderson, Jean-Pierre Lentin
