Like many psychological disorders, oxycotton addiction and dependence depends on several things. Two main factors include:
- Environment. Environmental factors including your family’s beliefs and attitudes and exposure to a peer group that encourages drug use seem to play a role in initial oxycotton use.
- Genes. Once you’ve started using oxycotton, the development into addiction may be influenced by inherited traits.
Changing brain pathways
Physical oxycotton addiction appears to occur when repeated use of oxycotton alters the way your brain feels pleasure. The addicting drug causes physical changes to some nerve cells (neurons) in your brain. Neurons use chemicals called neurotransmitters to communicate. Neurons release neurotransmitters into the gaps (synapses) between nerve cells; neurotransmitters are received by receptors on other neurons and on their own cell bodies.
