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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The Role of Computer Games & Violence Sara Safdiah 11/14/2012 Comp 129-025RL Video games‚ television shows‚ movies‚ computers‚ phones‚ and other forms of technology have tangled up most of our lives in ways both beneficial and detrimental. People sit in front of computers and tvs‚ staring at the screens all day with beady eyes‚ oblivious to their surroundings‚ living in a fantasy world. As our technological programs become more upgraded so do our behinds. The sedentary behavior
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Drug Addiction and Crime: How Does Poverty Contribute to the Two? Poverty‚ crime‚ and addiction are social elements that create social problems. According to Reiman‚ “poverty is a source of crime” (27). Poverty in America is a major problem. In the United States‚ one out of every five children grows up in poverty (Reiman‚ 86). Many factors contribute to poverty. Some examples of these factors include: financial aspects of addiction‚ exclusion‚ images of crime‚ subcultures of
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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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athletes‚ the needy or affluent people can get addicted once introduced to a drug. Generally speaking‚ it is possible that the temptation of trying something unknown is what broadens the scale on the type of people that have a heroin addiction. In addition‚ having an addiction is complex and quitting takes more than just willpower; people have different reasons as to why they started in the first place. Some might object to the fact that abusers of heroin are dependent on the lack of moral and principles
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David Gray November 16th‚ 2012 Professor Riede English 1101 The Risks and Dangers of Computer Hacking Computer hackers become more intelligent every day. Companies attempt to make technology hacker-free‚ which is not plausible. All this does is provide the hacker with more assentive to figure out how to get around it. The growth of technology causes new threats and new problems. The consequences hackers face can be extremely severe‚ or minimal if lucky. Many “elite” hackers get off with
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Kristina’s and Peach’s Addiction Both Diary of an Exercise Addict by Peach Friedman and Crank by Ellen Hopkins‚ have a common theme of personal struggle that shows that it can be easily obtained through a number of ways that can make one’s life go downhill from the moment the personal struggle takes place‚ and on. In Diary of an Exercise Addict‚ exercise addiction and bulimia take over the author/ main character- Peach Friedman’s life‚ and this memoir is written as if it is a diary and has different
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historical essence of addiction counseling. Counselor‚ 5(3)‚ 43-48. The Historical Essence of Addiction Counseling William L. White‚ MA What distinguishes the profession of addiction counseling from the array of helping roles that have preceded and have followed it? What would be lost if the specialized knowledge and functions performed by the addiction counselor disappeared? This essay will explore these questions by attempting to define the historical essence of addiction counseling. The distinctiveness
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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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Dependencies midterm paper Is Addiction a Symptom Or a Primary Disease? The problem with the question of whether addiction is a disease or not is that it requires us to try to fit a loosely defined term into a vaguely defined category. Critics of the addictive disease model‚ also called the medical model‚ say that labeling drug addiction as a disease detracts addicts from assuming responsibility and taking control of their lives. Yet the very nature of addiction is similar to many other diseases
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