Addiction in 3D
Follow an opioid from the whole body down to single molecules, see how it releases the brain’s brakes, then feel the result behind the wheel of the Brake Game. Every term comes at three levels: everyday words, biology words and full names.
The Molecular Game of Addiction
A full active-learning session: a 3D synapse, a real opioid receptor structure, a body explorer that zooms from organs to molecules, and a team design challenge.
Open the session → 2The Dopamine Pathway
One dopamine pathway in a real 3D brain, a metro map and an animated machine: where nicotine, opioids, alcohol, cannabis, gambling, cocaine and methamphetamine break in, healthy and addicted brains side by side, hands-on controls, and a glossary in the six UN languages.
Open the pathway → 3Opioids in 3D
A guided lesson in seven short chapters: from the whole body to the reward circuit, the brake cell, the μ-opioid receptor, tolerance, withdrawal, overdose and treatment.
Open the lesson →Opioids up close
Now the Opioids tab of The Dopamine Pathway. Meet dopamine, watch five kinds of brain cells and three kinds of molecules react to an opioid, then drive the Brake Game: an opioid weakens the brakes, so the idling engine pushes the car forward, and it makes the driver drowsy.
Guard the Dopamine Factory
A five-minute game to play after Mouse Party. Drugs walk in as zombies, each carrying a bomb for every part of the dopamine machine it damages. Put the right guard in its lane: dopamine neuron, GABA, vesicles or DAT. Pick the drugs first: alcohol, cocaine and the opioids by default.
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