Addiction is a disease
Addiction has none of the above characteristics. (Dodes, 2011). The fact that, if addiction is not dealt with in time might get worse is the only characteristic of addiction that is similar to that of a disease.
According to Mclemore (2007), one of the factors that...
Treatment Plan for Overcoming the Addiction to Smoking
Addiction to smoking is tagged with health and biological implications because tobacco has been found to contain 19 known cancer-causing chemicals (New York Times, 2011). Apart from the biological and health effects, Alex stands the change of suffering other forms of effect to his current...
Program Hypotheses and Variables of Abuse and Drug Addiction
In a recent survey by the World Health Organization, abuse and drug addiction is a major problem in Tennessee State. According to Kedia (2007), a part of individuals in Tennessee State who abuse drugs abuse prescribed drugs. This has made the prescribed drugs fall second...
Specifics of Drug Addiction
The paper tells that a specific motivation for individuals to indulge in drug abuse is directly related to how they experience and perceive social organization, especially when they live in complex societies that do not define and reinforce values. For example, close knit families are notably...
How to Prevent Drug Addiction Problems in the Workplace
It is interesting that people prefer cocaine because it does not limit a person’s intellectual and cognitive abilities (Potter & Orfali, 1998). According to the National Institute on Alcohol and Alcoholism, every single time at least 15% of the American workforce is under the influence...
Cannabis Addiction among 16-24 Years, How It Effects on Health
Medical professionals are yet to establish any medications to treat cannabis addiction. Consequently, medical professionals use various measures to reduce the effects of drug misuse, which may include behavioral therapies. These measures have been effective in reducing cannabis addiction among young adults aged between 16-24...
Options for Treatment of Alcohol Addiction
The initial contact is the ideal time for a spontaneous start to the therapeutic relationship. Ironically, many nurses miss this time, preferring to wait for a more “appropriate” moment to establish a genuine nurse-patient relationship (McAllister 2004, p. 575). Thus the initial contact should not...
Addictions Affecting Marriages
The addictions are additional burdens to married couples already facing typical problems and challenges in today’s life that is characterized by a ‘postmodern’ outlook where they cannot expect to avoid exposure to stress, loss or other traumatic experiences. The burden is exacerbated if one or both...
What Causes the Individuals to Be Addicted to the Internet
It is a fact that internet addiction is a problem and that the problem may be here to stay if the preventive measure is not taken. Many individuals continue to be addicted to the said technology on a daily basis. The concern is that the...
Trans-Cultural Health Issues - Ethnicity and Substance Abuse
World Health Organization's definition of drug addiction is: “Any form of substance use which goes beyond traditional and customary dietary uses or deviates from a medical regimen and results in an uncontrolled compulsive intake of the substance is an addiction.”(p.6) To explain it further, the...
Should Drug Addicted Mothers be Prosecuted
There are three levels of effect where drug abuse is concerned. There is the level of negative effects that the use of drugs will have upon an individual who misuses substances and consequently experiences both social and physical ramifications. In addition, the effects on the...
Problem of Drug Abuse
it is important to note that there are doubtless many cases in which the drug user has come to a sense of realization and has decided that they must put away drugs in order to preserve their own life and happiness (as well as the...
Drug Treatment Programs
In a condition when a person needs emotional support being kicked out from the program before being submitted to another program must have only caused more emotional distress. Fortunately for Darlene, she eventually got into a special program in Walden that combined psychiatric care with...
The Use of Stimulants Among the Young People and Its Negative Impacts
According to the 2009/2010, Northern Ireland Crime Survey (NICS) in Northern Ireland identified the prevalence of the drug use to be 23.3% for the population aged between 16-59 years. This is an indication that the general drug use in Northern Ireland is much lower compared...
The Issues of Teenage Drug Abuse
Aside from synthetic marijuana, which was second in line as the most abused drug by 12th graders, Adderall, a pharmaceutical drug, was noted to be an “a central nervous system stimulant made up of two different chemicals called amphetamine and dextroamphetamine…(where) people who take Adderall...
Determinants of Substance Abuse
The third method is quite useful in explaining that such an individual may have picked up the substance-abusing nature by adopting the habit from people around him/her. The three methods highlighted above would be useful in carrying out the initial investigation about a patient’s biological...
Drug Abuse and Social Worker Role
In the modern world, drug abuse is a rampant social problem that is widely spread in the whole human society. Because of its widespread nature as a social problem in the modern world, there is an urgent need to include curriculum on drug abuse and...
The Movie The Hurt Locker
Owen calls James on his fixation. Owen gets hurt because James was looking for trouble, and he yells at James that he looks for trouble because he has to get his adrenaline fix. And, in another scene, Sanborn breaks down a little and tells James...
How Should Drugs Be Managed - as a Criminal, Medical or Social Issue
An important benefit of legalizing drugs is the dramatic decline in crime. Nearly 50% of the property crimes in the UK are aimed at raising money to use drugs. Some other issues identified as linked to the criminalization of drugs are street crimes, mass incarceration,...
Alcohol, Drugs, and Violence Among Adolescents
Drug addiction and alcohol addiction are another reasons for sex offenses by juveniles. “Recent studies show that teenage girls who abuse drugs and alcohol are more likely to have sex”. It is impossible for the juveniles to control their emotions and feelings under the influence...
How Smartphone Affects People and How Companies Market the Phones
The communicators have a QWERTY keyboard and a PDA under the flip top. The phone uses the GEOS V3.0 operating system which allows email and text-based web browsing. In 2000, Nokia released a new model, Nokia 911i, which could browse the web better. Palm International...
Differences Between the Disease Model and the Harm Reduction Model
Disease Model Treatment Implications
A lasting total abstinence from all psychoactive substances is perceived to be the only acceptable treatment goal. The disease model also considers confrontational and coercive tactics as essential to break through denial. Disease model views successful recovery as requiring acceptance of the...
Human Behavior through the Imperative to Survive
Thus, the evolutionary theories of psychology can be revealed as a way in which to explain human behavior when understood through the universality of responses. AttractionOne of the ways in which evolutionary psychology can be justified through the evidence of behavior is by examining mating...
The Issue of the Abuse and Misuse of Prescription Drugs
"A postmarking surveillance program to monitor Ultram (tramadol hydrochloride) abuse in the United States" study was conducted on the prescription drug Tramadol HCl (Ultram). When this drug was first introduced into the pharmaceutical market, it had been determined that the risk of abuse and/or addiction to...
Drug Abuse amongst Teenagers
Residents aged 12 and older have used heroin at least once in their lifetime. The survey also revealed that many teenagers and young adults have used heroin at least once--76,000 individuals aged 12 to 17 and 474,000 individuals aged 18 to 25. Heroin use among...
Is the War on Drugs Effective
Mendoza (2010) reporting for the Associated Press notes that the war on drugs has cost the US “US$1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of live” and yet, “drug use is rampant and violence even more brutal and widespread”. From a pluralist perspective, the social welfare...
The Addition Of Long Acting Naltrexone And Its Effect On Health
President Nixon created the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention (SAODAP) in 1971. The first director of SAODAP, Dr. Jerome Taffe, was eager to improve access to drug abuse treatment programs by moving services from prisons and hospitals into services based in communities. He...
The Impact Of Substance Abuse On Criminal Behaviour
Alcohol abuse offers some interesting insights. It is frequently used with other drugs and is often used as a substitute when a preferred substance is unavailable. Research suggests that the abuse of a single substance is rare (Miller, et. al., 1990). “Adulteration”, when a variety...
Consequences Of Caffeine Consumption
The risk of colorectal cancer has been found to reduce by between 10 and 24% among people who consume more than four cups per day. Research established that the risk of endometrial cancer in women is reduced by 25% among women consuming more than four...
Social Issues in the Information Age
In fact, every web user gets addicted to the internet at some point or another. The computer itself is a fascinating device, but when clubbed as an interface for the internet, it captures the imagination of millions at one time and increases risks of internet...
The Globalization of the Tobacco Industry
The globalization of the tobacco industry is a two-pronged problem. On the one hand, it is a solution for the declining market of tobacco in Western societies, helping to preserve the jobs that the industry creates and supporting the industry through increased distribution. On the...
The Practice of Family Therapy
The father on the other hand had to work to pay off the debts that had accumulated in the pubs and bars, which he did pay on his son’s behalf bit by bit.
A description of the situations that prompted the family to seek help...
The Harmfulness of Street Drugs and the Prescription Medicines
What people fail to understand is that the medicine has been prescribed to some other person after careful and thorough examination by the doctor and the same conditions would not apply on them. Such situations often lead to harmful results, side effects, and addiction. This...
Advances in Alcoholism Treatment
The issue as to whether alcoholic behavior needs to be improved is a matter of debate entangled in morality. According to Peter Miller, the author of "Biological Research on Addiction," says those people who have lived or are living with active alcoholics find that they...
Harm and Benefits of the Traditional and Modern Games
The vast majority of video games are basically designed to entertain. Right at this moment, there are around millions of people playing video games. The game industry is expanding. It is becoming a large, overpowering force of finance. The video games were introduced in the...
Cyber Crimes and the Rights of the Child
Prolonged use of computers and the internet can lead not just to physical harm but affect the relevant cognitive skills as well. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child sets out that every child has a right to develop a full potential free...
Causes of Alcoholism
It is evidently clear from the discussion that most of the people get the first taste of alcohol from the family or friends. If a person’s parents are drinkers they may quite often do it in front of their children or they may keep liquors...
Drug Enforcement Efforts
Maternal drug abuse results in birth defects and contributes to an increase in cases of infant mortality. Drug abuse is associated with health problems including tuberculosis, hepatitis, lung cancer, and many other complications. Long term drug abuse leads to impairment of the functioning of the...
Facebook Privacy
The table below gives the details of the web brand and the number of unique visitors that the brand received in 2011. While the popularity of social networking is on the rise, web-based email is on the decline. The millions of Facebook users spend 10...
Opium Use In Victorian England And Its Impact On Literature
Plant with the Latin name Papaver somniferum through a process of cutting the seedpod so that the juice oozes out and then drying it and combining it with other substances (Booth, 1998, pp. It has a soporific effect and is a relaxant and an efficient...
Legalizing Marijuana in Canada
Studies have documented that smoking marijuana has effects in regard to the contribution of most chronic illnesses.In situations where people become addicts, the issue of socioeconomic factors comes in. The process of rehabilitating such people becomes hectic.3 Many families would not be in a position...
Virtual Relationships vs. Face to Face Relationships
The paper tells that in the online medium, the individuals gain a sense of easy connectivity and also an attachment with the immediate social circle. The online communities allow for individuals to have an easier mode of communication with their peers, irrespective of which part...
The Use of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: People With Substance Abuse Problems
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy evolved from two therapeutic disciplines namely Behaviour Therapy and Cognitive Therapy (Shinebourne lecture, 2010). Behaviour Therapy was strongly influenced by the behaviourist movement in Psychology, particularly the Classical Conditioning theories of Pavlov and the Learning Theories by Thorndike and Skinner. ...
Approaches To Prevention And Treatment Of Substance Abuse
Abuse is characterized by maladaptive patterns of use leading to clinically significant impairment or distress and manifested by tolerance, withdrawal, and inability to fulfill role obligations, recurrent substance-related legal problems, and social and interpersonal problems (Pyne, et. Abuse of alcohol becomes alcoholism and several diseases...