Studying how drugs affect living things involves examining simple animals like planaria worms. Studying how people react to medicine can show how much a drug helps body tissue heal. This could be useful for helping human tissue repair and grow. Studying how calming drugs affect planaria’s healing helps us understand how they might affect the human body. This information is really important for making healthcare better and creating new medicines. Pharmaceutical companies make money by knowing the positive and negative effects of a drug when it becomes available to the public (Deochand et al., 2018). Healthcare workers need to know how medicines affect the body’s ability to heal and grow to take better care of patients. New information tells us that it is important to know how drugs work when testing them on people. Studying how drugs affect planaria worms can help us learn how they might affect people, especially how they help heal and grow new tissue. This paper discusses why studying planaria’s ability to regrow body parts helps understand how drugs work (Mohammed et al., 2018). Studying planaria can help people stay healthy. This study is important because it helps to create new drugs, healthcare choices, and basic scientific knowledge.

Planaria as an Animal Model

Planaria are a type of flat, worm-like animals. Because science allows us to utilize these fascinating tools, learning is enjoyable. Animals that are flat and have three cell layers are called flatworms. They belong to the Tricladida category in the group Rhabditophora (Deochand et al., 2018). Since they lack a bodily cavity, they are known as acoelomates. Although they may reside anywhere, rivers and lakes are frequently home to them (Justine et al., 2018).

Planaria are excellent for research and have several beneficial traits that make them highly useful for science. Planaria have the advantage of being affordable and simple to locate with little help. They are available on the market at competitive costs. Planaria are different from other living things because they can survive in many places without needing specific things or difficult conditions. This makes it easy to study and learn about many different things. According to Mohammed et al. (2018), analysts can use a flexible model more easily and at a lower cost because it considers what people need. More people can study planaria without needing a lot of supplies or tools. Planaria helps study in many different areas. They give researchers a good and cheap way to study.

Neoblasts are special cells that help planaria grow back to the body parts they lost. They are a great example to study how things grow back. These creatures can grow a whole new body from small pieces. Scientists can now do different tests and experiments more easily. When given drugs like cocaine, marijuana, amphetamines, and morphine, planaria show different actions. Studies have shown this. Planaria are very sensitive to how they act, which makes them good for studying how poisons and chemicals affect them and how they react to them. Researchers study planaria to see how chemicals can hurt unborn babies. They are also used to study how chemicals can affect behavior. They are good for studying how chemicals affect living things because they can live in different places and react to different substances in certain ways.

Drug Experiment on Planaria

Understanding why people become addicted is still a difficult problem for scientists to solve. Studies have shown that addiction can be passed down from parents to children. About 40-60% of the risk of becoming addicted comes from our genes (Fields & Levin, 2018). Children of parents who drink much alcohol are much more likely to become addicted to alcohol themselves, about 3-5 times more likely than children of parents who do not drink a lot. How genes are turned on or off could be influenced by epigenetic mechanisms, which might be very important in this phenomenon. Using much cocaine for a short period can make genes in your body start working again, and this could change how your brain works. Because planaria have a complicated nervous system, head structures similar to vertebrates, and neurotransmitters like vertebrates, scientists are interested in studying how genetics relates to addiction in these organisms (Pagán, 2017). These flatworms are used to study drug abuse and behavior. They show addictive behavior when given drugs, just like animals. They can also start relying on the drugs and have symptoms when they stop taking them.

Sugar, which is usually seen as harmless, can cause addictive behaviors similar to other addictive substances. Planaria that are given sugar water show a preference for where they got the sugar water. This is similar to how people behave when they are addicted to drugs. Preference to sugar