Drug-use may damage ability to choose right from wrong
Drug-use may damage ability to choose right from wrong Regular drug users may have difficulty choosing between right and wrong because the parts of their brains used for moral processing and evaluating emotions are damaged by their prolonged narcotic habits, a new study suggests. Research has shown that stimulant users often find it difficult to identify other people's emotions, particularly fear, and to show empathy. These aspects play an important role in moral decision making, researchers said. Other studies have pointed to structural and functional abnormalities in especially the frontal regions of their brains among stimulant users. These areas are engaged when moral judgements have to be made, they said. "This is the first study to suggest impairments in the neural systems of moral processing in both cocaine and methamphetamine users," said Samantha Fede from University of New Mexico. Poor judgement about moral situations can lead ...
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