research on substance abuse and dependence focused on men. That changed once U.S. agencies began requiring federally funded studies to enroll more women. Since then‚ investigators have learned that important gender differences exist in some types of addiction. According to our class notes “There are both sex and gender differences between men and women that impact mental health and/or substance use conditions/disorders.” Sex differences are biological which include differences related to our reproductive
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Effects of Drug Use There are several reasons why individuals experiment with illegal drugs. Some people are curious‚ bored‚ or pressured into it. Yet others are depressed and looking for a quick escape. Regardless of the justification used‚ drugs are very dangerous and habit forming. Many drug users consequently find themselves addicted‚ unhealthy‚ and desolate. First of all‚ Drug use often results in a person becoming addicted to drugs. This type of absorbed behavior to drugs is a complicated
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On January 24th‚ 60 minutes aired the interview of Bill Whitaker with victims of heroin‚ families‚ friends and teenagers who were indirectly and directly affected by this drug epidemic. They explained that heroin has penetrated all over the country affecting everyone and anyone who comes across this opioid all starting in the heartland; there is not any form of prevention from people especially teenagers from obtaining it. Specifically they claimed that there need to be barriers to the availability
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Addictions Substance and Behavior What is addiction? There are many definitions and classifications‚ but what it comes down to is: “the person loses control over their use of the substance or behavior‚ and importantly‚ they are aware of that loss of control.” Addiction is a euphoric feeling one may get from a behavior or substance. Addiction is a mental concern which researchers have related with dopamine levels in the brain. An experiment taken place in 2009 with Dr. Nora Volkow at the National
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Vulnerability to addiction (risk factors) Personality – vulnerability / risk factor • Lawton - Originally believed that addiction led to personality defects; however some research indicated that defective personality characteristics precede addiction. • Eysenck – developed a psychological resource model‚ he believed that certain personality types lead to addiction. • Suggested that individuals develop habit based on purpose related to personality type e.g. hedonist‚ sensation seeker • Eysenck
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worst‚ they affect the people around them; the people who care about them. There are many facets to drug addiction‚ most of them people just don’t understand. Addicts get sucked into a lifestyle that they don’t necessarily want. They go from day to day trying to get by; doing this by any means necessary. By living such a life an addict affects almost everyone he or she comes in contact with. With the drug problem in this country affecting more and more people‚ there has been a shortage of recovery and
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The moral model states that addictions are the result of human weakness‚ and are defects of a persons character. People who don’t agree with the moral model ‚ often have scant sympathy for people with serious addictions. They believe either that a person with greater moral strength could have the will to break an addiction‚ or that the addict showed a great moral failure in the first place by starting the addiction. The moral model is applied to dependency on illegal substances‚ perhaps purely
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Substance Abuse Chapter 5-6 Exercise Family Roles of Addiction I have never thought of myself as someone who had to deal with the struggles of addiction‚ I never had a problem with drugs or alcohol so the whole topic of substance abuse wasn’t really important to me. After reading more into the chapters of my book I now know that even if you are not the addict that doesn’t mean you are not caught up in the problems that addiction brings. Addiction is a disease that affects the family as a whole and
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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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Tia Gardner September 21‚ 2012 Humanistic Perspective and Addiction There are several theories of addiction. All of them are imperfect. All are partial explanations. It is for this reason that it is important to be aware of and question addiction theories. One contemporary psychoanalytical view of substance abuse is that it is a defense against anxiety (Thombs D 2006). Addicts often abuse alcohol and other substances to guard against anxiety and other painful
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