Risk Factors of Addiction Poster presents 10 factors of how and why someone becomes addicted. Included are factors like genetics, gender, mental disorders, trauma and abuse, how drug is taken, peer pressure, home and family, school problems, early drug use, type of drug taken.
How drug addiction Occurs Poster shows in sequence the progression of how someone initially takes the drug to becoming addicted. The begins by showing the synapse being flooded with dopamine creating euphoria, then less dopamine being produced, to less receptors available to stimulate, then low dopamine levels and withdrawal, leading person to retake drug, and ending in person using higher doses, tolerance, and addiction.