Addiction The Tabers medical dictionary defines drug addiction as a compulsive and maladaptive dependence on a drug that produces adverse psychological‚ physical‚ economic‚ social‚ or legal ramifications(5). In the U.S.‚ the abuse or misuse of prescription drugs has been identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a growing problem. In 2007‚ for example‚ the CDC reported that more than 27‚500 Americans died of drug overdose‚ an increase of more than 100% in the preceding
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Addiction We are going to talk about addiction and what it means. There are a couple text book definitions to what this means. Addiction in one form or another is common to most people. Addiction in the dictionary says‚ “The quality or state of being addicted.” With that being the case‚ look at what addicted means. Addicted also means to devote or surrender to something habitually or obsessively. Most of the time we hear this word is because we associate it with drugs. When most people think of
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the Persistent Beast Meth addiction is a horrible beast that steals your life from you. Meth is a highly addictive drug and “Meth is now the No. 1 drug in rural America” (Got Meth?). Meth can negatively rearrange and scramble the user’s life‚ sometimes bringing complete destruction. Meth addiction will separate the individual that is using from their family and loved ones‚ will make the user have a extremely hard time obtaining and managing money‚ and meth addiction will cause physical and psychological
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Community Addiction Course Research Assignment The importance of spirituality in addiction Recovery Introduction: I chose to do my research assignment on the importance of spirituality in addiction recovery because I am interested in how people change their lives from addiction and what helps them in recovery. In my community addiction course I learnt about recovery and what helps. The 12 step program came up a lot and people are becoming more spiritual. I did not know anything
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Alcohol Addiction Laurie Evans COM/156 August 4‚ 2013 Alcohol Addiction Is alcoholism a disease of addiction? This is the question you will find answers to in the following paper. Let’s start by defining what a disease is. A disease can be defined as any harmful‚ depraved‚ or morbid condition‚ as of mind or society. Alcoholism can be defined as a disease because if one consumes more than the recommended amount you can have memory loss‚ become violent‚ and in some cases become depraved
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view regarding abuse/addiction is superficial and during this time I think it’s merely a wrong decision. But as I grew and exposed to this through peers‚ school and church teachings I saw that there are a lot of factors to consider why an individual resort to drug and/or alcohol abuse/addiction. Emotional factors: I learned this in-depth during my college life (a couple of years ago) when I was introduced to Maslow’s pyramid of human needs. There is a high risk for addiction for people who have
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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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Newborns and Addiction Many states are passing new laws‚ laws that will prosecute a mother‚ and remove the child from the home. Are you wondering what exactly these laws are being implemented for? As unbelievable as it may seem‚ and as sorrow inducing as it truly is‚ there are hundreds of thousands of newborns that are being born with active drug addictions. Unheard of by many‚ the reality of newborn addictions is something that has been on the rise for quite some time. In fact‚ the number of babies
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CBT has been studied as a treatment for specific phobia (Craske & Rowe‚ 1997) either alone (Booth & Rachman‚ 1992; de Jongh et al.‚ 1995; O’Donahue & Szymanski‚ 1993) or in combination with exposure-based treatments (Kamphuis &Telch‚ 2000; Koch‚ Spates‚& Himle‚ 2004). In CBT‚ patients are taught to identify and alter their fears that maintain the phobic reaction‚ and the CBT techniques used to accomplish this include cognitive restructuring (de Jongh et al.‚ 1995) and guided threat reappraisal (Kamphuis
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Heroin addiction is a scary thing. There are so many risks involved with this drug‚ it is difficult to understand why a person would want to even try it. The textbook mentions that experts consider heroin to be the most addictive of all the opioids‚ taking the drug for just a few weeks can result in its users the opioid use disorder. This is a disorder which can interfere with their daily lives‚ causing the drug to be the focus of their life. The textbook also mentions that the addict develops a
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