An undergraduate in arts # 3

Source Text:

Research has shown that addictive disease causes physiologic changes in brain structures responsible for feeling euphoria or reward, consolidating new learning and memory, and maintaining compulsive behaviors. (p.28)

Source:

Compton, P. (2001). Understanding Addictive Disease. Nursing, 31 (9). p.28.

Writer’s Text:

The chemical characteristics of drugs are what ultimately cause the subject to become reliant upon them. The drug disrupts the physiological system of the subject so that they feel they need the drug to function properly (Compton 28).

Writer’s comment:

This is just like facts. This is all my own words, but I took the points she said, … I’m summarizing her points.