on the toilet of his bathroom in Graceland but what many do not know is the discrepancy behind the details of exactly why. Substance abuse covers a wide range of substances. Any brain-affecting substance is classified as a drug and this includes caffeine and nicotine on top of alcohol (Hansell & Damour‚ 2008).Due to this the DSM IV-TR classifies substance abuse as substance related disorders. Mr. Presley died of such a disorder. Elvis Presley Elvis Presley is viewed by many to be the “King
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person and the substance use. The interviewee is a 24-year-old female in recovery from an addiction to crack cocaine. She has the tendency to have anxiety in most situations and also deals with the mental complications of being a mother to a toddler. These complications include headaches‚ trouble sleeping‚ and irritability. On top of her own choice to use the respondent also lives in a state in which marijuana use is legal both medicinally and recreationally. 2. What substance is used? What
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population of a society. Therefore‚ it is safe to assume that individual opinions of substance use will vary across the population of a society. Substance use can have very different meanings for different people. The people participating in substance use will have significantly different views about it than people who see others participating in substance use. What one individual might consider abusing a substance‚ another may see it as just recreational use. Symbolic Interactionism assumes that not
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On the other hand‚ imagine how taken aback people are to find themselves dependent on chemical substances when there were no apparent clues suggesting they might be susceptible to active addiction. This sometimes happens when a person is prescribed pain pills after surgery or for pain management or a person decides to experiment with heroin‚ and the obsessions/compulsions of addiction raise their monstrous heads without warning. There is no pre-emptive strategy for this. So‚ sometimes people
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regarded as a behavioral or nonchemical addiction because of its genetic‚ endophenotypic‚ and phenotypic resemblances to substance dependence” (p. 418). As classified as a nonchemical condition‚ neuroimaging identifies how addictive behaviors of gambling compulsively reveals how the psychological disorder affects the brain function- Without conflicting with neurotoxic substances (van Holst et. al.‚ 2010‚ p.
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Addiction is still somewhat of an unsolved mystery and no one is exactly sure how a certain substance acts on the brain. A popular definition of addiction is progressing from liking the substance to needing the substance and constantly seeking it out despite any negative consequences the user may experience. There is still much research to be done in the field of addiction especially alcoholism. The mechanism alcohol utilizes is disinhibition of GABA in the brain. GABA is an inhibitory transmitter
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PROPERTY DIAGRAMS OF PURE SUBSTANCES SUBJECT : ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS CONTENTS: * Phase and pure substance * Properties of a substance * P-V diagram for a pure substance * P-T diagram for a pure substance * P-V-T surface * T-S diagram for a pure substance * h-s diagram for a pure substance Thermodynamic Properties * Characteristics by which physical properties of system may be described. e.g. pressure‚ volume‚ temperature‚ entropy‚ enthalpy etc
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References: Barton R&M 2008.‚ "Mexico ’s Drug-Related Violence‚" Congressional Research Service "Drug Use and Abuse: Fighting the Destructive Grip of Addiction" <http://sparkaction.org/content/impact-substance-abuse-foster-care> Kirst-Ashman‚ K. (2011). Human behavior in the macro social environment (3rd ed.). Brooks Cole. ISBN: 9780495813651. Kolar‚ A.F.‚ Brown‚ B.S.‚ Haertzen‚ C.A.‚ & Michaelson‚ B.S.‚ CHILDREN OF ADDICTED PARENTS: IMPORTANT
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Evaluation Lin Article Critique: Part 1 Title and Introduction Summary Lin‚ Mack‚ Enright‚ and Baskin (2004) state that prior to the writing of this article anger and related emotions have already been associated as triggers within the realm of substance abuse. As way of illustration the authors cite the Project Match 12-step facilitation therapy manual which states that “Anger and resentment are pivotal emotions for most recovering alcoholics” (Nowinski‚ Baker‚ & Carroll‚ as found in Lin et al‚
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Based upon the belief that the mind and body are two separate entities‚ philosophers‚ such as Rene Descartes‚ support the Substance Dualism theory of mind‚ arguing that the mind‚ which is a thinking entity‚ may exist without the body‚ which is a physical extension‚ because it is its own individual substance of matter. In Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy‚ he puts all concepts of previous certainty into question‚ intentionally leaving the reader with skepticism towards the concept of knowledge
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