Position Paper: Is Addiction a Brain Disease? Introduction Addiction‚ it is all around us‚ affecting people from all walks of life‚ it is not limited to certain social classes or lifestyles. It is found in every ethnic group‚ regardless of gender or age. It affects our neighbors‚ our friends‚ and our family either directly or indirectly. Although substances such as alcohol and illegal drugs are two of the most common addictions we hear about‚ there is a wide range of substances and even
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Drug Addiction is a Disease Sabrina Hinds Axia College of University of Phoenix Drug Addiction is a Disease Drug addiction is a disease because addictive personalities do not have control over their addictions. To prove this claim‚ the reader will learn about how addictive personalities become addicted; how dopamine contributes to the addict’s addiction; how society treats addictive personalities; and how drug-addiction is a mental illness just like any other mental illness. This paper
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Addiction: A Disease of the Brain Chad Steelmon Dual Enrollment English 101 Mrs. Munger December 14‚ 2012 Abstract Through years past and years presently‚ addictions have grown and changed in style and substance. The leaders in substance addictions transpose every year with the usual frontrunners of alcohol and tobacco. Addictions are truly a disease that is extremely hard to overcome‚ but it can be done. With endurance and acceptability to setbacks‚ an addiction can become
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Addiction‚ excuse or disease? Addiction can have profound effects on a person ’s thoughts‚ feelings and behavior. It usually disturbs perceptions and attitudes‚ and can significantly disrupt someone ’s personality. This isn ’t just because of substances involved - such as alcohol‚ nicotine‚ cocaine‚ heroin and valium. The experience of addiction itself also has an effect on how a person thinks feels and behaves. Addictions are present in almost every individual. Whether it ’s a chemical dependence
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Current Topics in Health 26 November 2012 Drug Addiction a Disease? Drug addiction‚ a new major phenomenon in our society today. The dependence‚ compulsive craving of a drug which becomes priority over all other issues in one’s life. We recognize that this issue of drugs and addiction is a growing problem now affecting most in this world. The physical characteristics of addiction would trembling‚ sweating‚ loss of appetite‚ and seizures. Psychological characteristics are harder
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Addiction choice or disease This essay will look to outline the different arguments in that; addiction to a substance is a choice of one’s free will‚ or is it a disease element in our bio chemical or physical make up? It will consider‚ if addiction extends from genes inherited from parents or forefathers‚ or if it is a learned behaviour through day to day lifestyles‚ and changes through growth from tots to teens‚ to youths‚ then to adults. It will also seek to analyse how different approaches and
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Running Head: CHOICE VS. DISEASE Addiction: Choice vs. Disease Danny O’Dell Kaplan University CM220-14AU Professor Pappas January 16‚ 2010 Johnny ’s heart is beating at over a hundred and thirty beats per minute. He can ’t sleep again and is sweating profusely. Johnny hears a voice saying "Don ’t do it Johnny. You know how this will end." Then he hears another louder‚ more insistent voice
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The Disease of Drug Addiction Joanne Frye HSER 340 Abstract Addiction is a chronic‚ often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive seeking and use of addictive substances despite harmful consequences to the addicted individual and to those around him or her. Introduction Dramatic advances in science over the past 20 years have shown that drug addiction is a chronic relapsing disease that results from the prolonged effects of drugs on the brain. (Leshner‚ 1997) It is considered a
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This article is about “should addiction to drugs be a labeled a brain disease?” The author starts out talking about the different theories as to why some individuals become addicted to alcohol or other drugs. Historically‚ drug and alcohol dependency has been viewed as either a disease or a moral failing. The view that this addiction to drugs and alcohol are righteous failings maintains that such abusing of drugs is voluntary of what the person wants to do. People choose to immoderate in such ways
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Alcoholism: Disease or Choice? Danielle M Ellis WVNCC Abstract Webster’s New World Dictionary defines alcoholism as a chronic condition which is mainly characterized by excessive and compulsive consumption of and dependence on alcohol as well as nutritional and mental disorders. This definition depicts alcoholism as a disease that is beyond one’s control. It has however been argued in some circles that alcoholism is a choice and the idea of alcoholism as a disease is a myth. Since it is an individual
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