Reithmeyer November 4‚ 2012 Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Have you ever had to deal with a person dealing with alcoholism or drug addiction? Alcoholism and drug addiction in a family member can have many effects not only in the person with the problem but‚ other family members as well. My little brother Jose is the one from my family who struggles with alcoholism and drug addiction. He started drinking at a very young age and then slowly started experimenting with
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Models of Addiction There are many models that have tried to explain addiction. Here‚ I will briefly review five of the main models. Stress-Reduction/Behavioural Moral-Volitional Model Personality Model Dispositional Disease Model Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) Stress-Reduction/Behavioural Model This is based on the notion that people learn to use alcohol because it helps them cope with stressors‚ and reduces emotional stress reactions. Use might then become abuse‚ and then dependence‚ if drinking
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Adolescents and Addiction Liberty University Illegal Drug Use Adolescent years can be considered one of the toughest time periods of development in a person’s life. It can be marked with the three p’s: peer pressure‚ pimples‚ and unfortunately pushers. Of all the things that an adolescent can experience‚ one of the most detrimental‚ to what should otherwise be the healthiest time of life‚ is the use and abuse of drugs and alcohol (Feldman‚ 2014). Illegal drug use among adolescents seems
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Heroin Addiction By:Monika Vasquez Introduction Did you know that heroin addiction is currently on the rise? Will it sure is. More and more people are discovering heroin‚ which means more addiction. Some heroin users don’t even know the risks that heroin can do to you. The risks are so high that it can even lead to death. If you don’t know what heroin is you must be living under a rock. Heroin is a highly illegal drug that people still use because how addicting it is. Heroin is made out of
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Opioid abuse and addiction remains major public health concern and is often referred to as the opioid crisis. The National Institute of Health (NIH) reports there are approximately 2.1 million people in the United States suffering with the abuse and addiction to drugs such as heroin‚ morphine‚ and other prescribed opioids‚ and that number is increasing (NIH). While heroin addiction has been at the forefront of this problem‚ prescription opioid abuse is on the rise. Overdoses are also increasing‚
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PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS INTERNET ADDICTION. A long with the development of society is the development of scientific and technical‚ including the development and popularity of the internet. Beside the undeniable benefit is the tremendous impact that the internet bring. With most teens and adolescents‚ there is a thin line between casual Internet use and addiction. The first cause make person is addicted to the Internet is the family’s management. From that‚ they have much time to spend to do something
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Addicting chemicals used by big corporations under the protection of the Canadian Government are causing the general public to consume more and play less. Food addiction has been scientifically proven to have an astounding effect: “When these experiments were replicated by Hoebel and his colleagues using sugar as the possible substance of abuse‚ the results were the same as for alcohol and narcotics. Thus‚ laboratory animal research originally designed to mimic human behavior with alcohol and narcotics
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Addiction is a physical‚ psychological and physiological state that is as a result of dependence on substances that are psychoactive. They are taken into the body either through smoking‚ drinking‚ injection or any other means that may cause their entry into the body. The addiction develops when an individual cannot stay for prolonged periods of time without relying on the psychoactive substance that they are addicted to. Existing programs are not working because they’re based on false assumptions
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Yates ENG-1010-E02 Nov. 28th 2011 Research Paper Final Draft Addiction Does Not Discriminate Addiction does not discriminate; it does not care if one is rich‚ poor‚ famous‚ unknown‚ man‚ woman‚ or even a child. Addiction is an equal opportunity destroyer not only preying on the homeless living on the streets or the people who struggle economically but also the white collared‚ financially secure‚ and middle class. Addiction to any substance‚ including drugs or alcohol‚ is more than capable
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PCN-502 Theories of Addiction 8-1-14 Comparison Models Essay A lot of times there different ways that people go about dealing with addictions. Addictions are a result of drug abuse and dependence on the drug. There are a lot of possible explanations to where addictions come from and their effects on a patient. Addictions were once considered to be a disease but there’s more to it than that. Two explanations in particular that can show how drugs are associated with addictions fairly well are the
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