What is addiction? Addiction is a chronic‚ often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive drug seeking and use‚ despite the consequences to the individual who is addicted and to those that are around him or her. Alt-hough the decision to take drugs are voluntary for most people‚ the brain changes that occur over time will challenge the addicted person’s self control and hamper his or her ability to resist taking drugs. Fortunately‚ treatments are available to help people counter their addiction’s
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Substance Abuse and Addiction: Is There a Solution? Chad Mooney California College San Diego CSS101 September 18‚ 2012 Prof. Jim Rieser Substance Abuse and Addiction: Is There a Solution? Do you or someone you know have a problem with drugs or alcohol? Has life become unmanageable? You should be aware of the differences between abuse and addiction. Because drug abuse and addiction disrupt so many aspects of your life‚ treatment is not simple. Understanding drug abuse and addiction and effective
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The disease model views addiction as a disease thus allowing the healthcare system to provide assistance in prevention and treatment of addiction. By implementing the healthcare system to be involved‚ any person suffering from addiction can receive treatment where they may not if addiction was not considered a disease. Scientific advances have shown that addiction has long term effects on the brain and effects the behavior of an individual. With the understanding the addiction is a brain disease that
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for computer addiction treatment‚ one point regarding addiction to the computer needs to be made : Computer addiction is not an official psychiatric diagnosis. Despite a growing movement to have obsessive computer and internet use included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)‚ so far this has not happened. In relative terms when disadvantages of computer addiction compared to other addictions such as alcoholism and drug addiction‚ computer addiction is a very new
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new things that they have never had to deal with before‚ such as drugs. Many children do not know how to handle a situation when faced with drugs‚ which opens the possibility of bad decision making. Just one bad decision can lead to a lifetime of addiction and struggling. The use of dangerous drugs is a growing issue amongst teens in real life while also depicted in modern works of literature such as Crank and Go Ask Alice. With no prior exposure to them‚ teenagers have no clue how to deal with a
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Co-occurring Disorders and Addiction SUBS500_ B02_201230 Treatment of drug and alcohol addiction is seldom as simple as merely addressing the particular chemicals addict is taking into his body. More often than not‚ addicts suffer from other disorders in conjunction with their chemical dependency. The clinical reference to such a condition is called co-occurring disorders (Doweiko‚ 2012). According to Arias and Kranzler (2008) an estimated 1.1 percent of the U.S. population has an alcohol
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The Difference between Choice and Addiction By: Michael Chorba Jr. COM 220 June 30‚ 2010 Nicole Mclnnes Doctors believe that addiction or alcoholism isn’t a choice but believe that it is a disease. The definition of disease is “A definite pathologic process with a characteristic set of signs and symptoms. It may affect the whole body or any of its parts‚ and its etiology‚ pathology‚ and prognosis may be known or unknown” (MDO‚ 2010). Addiction and alcoholism is more of a disease than
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Addiction is an issue that many families find themselves struggling with. The film‚ Addiction: The family in crisis‚ discusses many of the issues surrounding addiction and alcoholism in the family. Addiction was described in the film as a “family disease”‚ meaning not only does addiction and alcoholism effect everyone in the family‚ everyone also has a role to play in the family dynamics which may perpetuate the behavior of the alcoholic. The most notable position prolonging the addict’s behavior
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BBM AND SOCIAL NETWORK ADDICTION Are you constantly checking your Facebook and Twitter for updates? Do you have a large number of Facebook friends and BBM contacts but only know and communicate with a few? Does the idea of having many social network friends make you feel popular? Do you feel unsettled and anxious when you can’t check for updates or read your messages? If you’ve answered yes to some of those questions‚ you may have a social network addiction. Statistics show that teenagers spend
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FACEBOOK ADDICTION AMONG STUDENTS * “I’ll just check facebook once before I start studying” is what the students tell themselves and they end up online for hours. Every day‚ millions of students go on a social media website. To many of them‚ social media is like a drug. There’s a euphoric high that comes from having a new notification or post‚ like the high from a snort of cocaine or smoke of marijuana. The lows of not being able to check it when they want is like the draw of an addictive drug
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