10. Drugs stay in the body for years after you take them
Most drugs get stored in fat within the body and can stay there for years. Here is how that happens.
Drugs easily mix with fat in the body. In this picture, you can see that fat is close to the vein and when drugs come through the vein the fat draws that drug into it like a magnet.
This is a problem because later, when the person is working, or exercising at the gym, or hiking... the fat burns up and a tiny amount of the drug seeps back into the vein. He gets a tiny "taste" of that drug again.
What happens when you get a tiny taste of sugar? You want MORE. What happens to the guy getting a tiny taste of that drug? He wants MORE. So he may still want drugs even years after he's stopped taking drugs.
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