Do you know that when a person orgasms, the brain looks the same as a person on heroin
In one study, the brain scan images show that the regions activated during an orgasm are strikingly similar to those engaged during drug use.
While sex promotes the natural release of dopamine, drugs can trigger an abundant amount of dopamine. This abundance can lead to that euphoric feeling of pleasure.
However, when you’re up that high and riding on a dopamine wave, you’ve got further to fall when that wave of dopamine diminishes—hence the crashing feeling that many drug users experience when their high vanishes.
Drugs trick the brain into chemically thinking that they’re good for us, sometime even better than other things people typically enjoy like sex or exercise activities
