Strengths for Addiction Counseling In the area of addictions counseling‚ which is the primary area of practice I seek to work professionally‚ my biggest strength is my own personal experience with addiction. When I read things‚ such as the upcoming Week 3 addiction simulation assignment‚ I feel truly blessed to have a thorough and personal understanding of the obsession and compulsion of addiction. While others need to where a bracelet to understand what hiding track marks is like‚ I physically
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Drug addiction counseling and treatment have recently become a popular topic of discussion and pop culture. We can simply turn on the TV in many cases and see celebrities as they go through rehab. On another channel‚ we might find family members urging an individual to find treatment in an intervention. While the treatment programs presented on these television programs typically feature a paradisiacal treatment location offering a number of leisure activities‚ this is often misrepresented. Here
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ages‚ and even some adults and the students. With permanent development of computer technology the quality of people using computer either for working purposes or entertainment purposes is increasing speedily. There are many things that causes addiction to computer games‚ one reason being‚ is that most students just need something to occupy their time and these games do that for countless hours. Some students use computer gamings to escape their reality which can include school‚ work and possibly
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Drug addiction is not a recent problem in Bangladesh. But it has been rising. In recent years Drug Addiction has significantly increased in Bangladesh. This agent of human devastation has spread its tentacles worldwide and also in our country. Every intelligent and humane person in the world society and international organizations such as the UN and WHO are alarmed by the present rate of addiction. Nowadays nearly ten per cent of outpatients in our hospitals are cases of drug addiction involving
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Drug addiction choice or disease I do not think there is a clearly and completely accepted prototype for making sense of addiction‚ but no matter how someone gets addicted to drugs or alcohol‚ once they are‚ they face a difficult and sometimes deadly disease. The debate over whether alcoholism is a disease or simply a serious behavioral problem has continued for over the years. Today‚ I want to talk about what alcohol and drug addiction really is a chronic medical disease of the brain. I believe
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Drug addiction is an important topic that is always being researched because of the various affects it can have on person’s brain and body. According to the Microbiology book‚ you start with an initial need that will get worse as more times you use it. This now becomes an addiction that that causes a person to increase the dosage of the drug to continue the sensation of pleasure (Whishaw and Kolb‚ 2000‚ p.197). Drug addiction is based on the brain system such as the frontal cortex‚ which makes the
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DotA: Recreation or Addiction? A research paper presented to: Ms. Cecilia Rivera Ramon Magsaysay (Cubao) High School Ermin Garcia St.‚ Brgy. Pinagkaisahan‚ cor. EDSA‚ Cubao‚ Quezon City In partial fulfillment of the requirements of English IV Submitted by: Mark Anthony Serrano IV-Scarlet Chapter I Introduction Defense of the Ancients (most commonly known as DotA) is one of the hottest and most popular games in the world of video games. But first‚ what is DotA? For
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Introduction In everyday life‚ technology plays an ever-increasing role; innovations‚ such as cellular telephones‚ hand-held computers‚ automatic teller machines‚ and digital videodisks‚ quickly become incorporated into daily use and are added to society’s vocabulary. Information is available in far greater quantities than ever before‚ and the means to access and share it with others is unprecedented. Because the pace of sophisticated technological change is so rapid‚ however‚ little is known
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In my health class I was giving the assignment to quit an addiction. The addiction that I chose to quit is to stop biting my nails. I chose to quit this addiction because I have been doing this for almost my entire life. I’ve never liked biting my nails but I’ve done it for so long that I don’t even know I am doing it till after. That is why I chose this addiction. In all honesty this addiction was tough. I’ll share some of my experiences. The first day in my journal I wrote that I had to relapse
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Thesis Statement Although some people argue for the legalization of drugs‚ addiction to these substances has caused a huge increase in violent crimes in the home‚ at school‚ and on the street. Many people do not understand why individuals become addicted to drugs or how drugs change the brain to create compulsive drug abuse. They mistakenly view drug abuse and addiction as strictly a social problem and may characterize those who take drugs as morally weak. One very common belief is that drug
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