Drug Addiction: To Cure or Not To Cure University of Phoenix Abstract Drug addiction is a huge social problem‚ and to some individuals; feel there is no end. People either try to fight this disease or just put their hands down preferring to think that nothing could be done. This paper investigates what drug addiction really is and why some people believe it is incurable. Primarily the main focus of the work is dedicated to the issue of
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Contextual Conditioning of Drug Tolerance and Drug Addiction Research on the contextual conditioning of drug tolerance shows it is an important factor in understanding drug addiction in humans. Context is a way of noting that the likelihood of a behavior or response depends on certain conditions. Contextual conditioning is said to occur when a person becomes conditioned not only to the drug but also to the environmental circumstances or cues in which the drug is taken. Studies have shown that tolerance
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Intro to Drug Use in Society Drug Abuse and Addiction are major burdens to society. The costs of drug abuse and addiction to our nation are staggering. Fourteen percent of patients admitted to hospitals have alcohol drug abuse and addiction disorders. Almost 20 percent of all Medicaid hospital costs and nearly 1 dollar of every 4 dollar Medicare spends on inpatient care is associated with substance abuse. 70 percent of individuals in state prisons and jails have used illegal drugs regularly.
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for illicit drugs‚ $193 billion for tobacco‚ and $235 billion for alcohol. As staggering as these numbers are‚ they do not fully describe the extent of destructive public health and safety implications of drug abuse and addiction‚ such as family disintegration‚ loss of employment‚ failure in school‚ domestic violence‚ and child abuse. These consequences all blossom from curiosity‚ diversion of reality‚ and the want to be socially accepted. Many young people become involved in drugs before they are
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Welfare Policy and Services Drug Addiction: A Hobby or a Disease What is Drug Addiction Whether talking about any drug addiction: alcohol addiction‚ cocaine addiction‚ methamphetamine addiction‚ or even heroin addiction‚ the pattern is the same‚ the person tries to escape some physical or emotional pain by taking drugs. This could be a physical or emotional pain‚ or the discomfort of boredom‚ peer pressure‚ and/or lack of social skills. The person finds that the drugs offer temporary relief‚ so
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The Spread of Drug Addiction a reflection by John Mark P. Burila BSEd 3-C major in Physical Science “Drug abuse and addiction are major burdens to society; however‚ staggering as these numbers are‚ they provide a limited perspective of the devastating consequences of this disease‚” Numerous incidents have been reported in television and social Medias about drug users and dealers who are caught in the acts‚ especially in those squatters area or what they call “drug dens”. Not only those person
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William Armstead Sociology 1301 11/23/13 Addiction: Food vs. Drugs Millions of people suffer from an addiction of some sort. A person can actually suffer from addictions to all sorts of things. It’s sad to say the first thing that comes to the minds of pretty much everyone when they hear the word addiction‚ is drugs. Controversy is at an uproar over whether or not food is addictive. As a matter of fact‚ food is the last thing on a person’s mind when addiction comes about. Though it’s hard to believe
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Empirical Evidence The study of addiction has included alcoholism and drug addiction for a long time. The recent obesity epidemic has brought food addiction as a serious concern even though it is still a controversial issue. It is difficult to accept the idea of food being an addiction. Addiction has been defined as” a primary‚ chronic disease involving brain reward‚ motivation‚ memory and related circuitry.”(Whitepaper) There are numerous studies and research that support the fact that over
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reasons why people turn to drugs and become addicted. In my opinion drug addiction stems from two sources your environment and how you see yourself. Being raised in a drug environment you have accessibility and peer pressure‚ loneliness causes low self-esteem and depression‚ basic immaturity causes boredom and experimentation. These are all factors of why people become drug addicts. If you were raised in a drug environment then it is only normal to fall into line and do drugs because it’s the natural
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Prevention of Adolescent Drug Addictions Abstract Drug addictions among today’s adolescent is climbing to an all-time high rate. Parents need to become more proactive in the prevention of their children becoming addicted to drugs. However‚ parents alone cannot handle this overwhelming task‚ the local schools and the community will need to take action also. Together this is a possible task‚ team work and consistency will prevail and save adolescents from being drug addicts.
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