The Effects of Drugs on The Brain The danger of drugs is no doubt. Unfortunately, abuse of illegal drugs is increasingly prevalent in various countries around the world, including Indonesia. Head of the National Narcotics Agency ,Commissioner General Anang Iskandar state the number of people who died due to drug abuse reached 200 million per year. The use of narcotics, psychotropic substances and other addictive ingredients can affect the work of the brain which functions as the center of the body's control. The effects of drugs on the brain that you must be aware of such as manipulating the mood, excessive brain work, and hallucinations. The first one is manipulating the mood. Since drugs affect the brain's work, drugs can change the atmosphere of the mood, ways of thinking, awareness and behavior. That is why narcotics are called psychoactive substances. There are several kinds of effects of drugs on the brain, such as inhibiting the work of the brain, called de...