Addiction Creative Writings Samples For Students

There’s a loud, ringing sound. It’s jarring, waking me from the otherwise cozy warmth that is my bed. I am forced to stick my hand, then my entire arm out from under the safety of my bedclothes in order to turn it off. To snooze or not to snooze? It will just go off in another seven minutes. I may as well get up now. The sooner I do, the sooner I get to see my best friend.
Groggy, bleary eyes, rubbing sleep from my face and half stumbling I wander into the kitchen, hearing the relations ...

Alcoholism and Pregnancy

Alcoholism increases tolerance on alcohol thus affecting an individual’s ability to control his or her alcoholic consumption. Studies have shown that a large cross-section of women is today consumers of alcohol. This affects most professional ladies more than ordinary women. Their brain is more prone to damage than that of men; for instance, the case of memory loss. The new generation women are likely to suffer from serious medical consequences such as brain, liver, and heart anomalies. According to Russell (2005), alcoholism has very adverse effects ranging from mental to psychiatric disorders, and even suicide. Children born of alcohol ...

Abstract

In this essay, an emphasis is given on the problems that come with the situation of drug abuse, such as the increase of criminal activity, the spreading of diseases, both by dangerous behaviors, like the needle sharing, and by sexual contact as sexual favors, or promiscuity.
Special attention is given to heroine as being plausible as the most harmful for society, not only because of its relation with the problems discussed earlier, but also because of, within the disease spreading one, being especially severe in terms of potential needle sharing situations that many times infect users with HIV, ...

Her hands shook, each finger twitching in a frenzied and broken rhythm that no one could have possibly understood. That was okay, the rhythm of her fingers matched the erratic beating of her heart at that moment. She had done something horrible, something that she might never have believed possible of herself in a million years. Worse than that though, so much so in fact that she felt it as a sudden awakening in the pit of her stomach, she’d enjoyed it. She had put a gun to a man’s head and pulled the trigger, and she ...

When one asks the question: what is crime? He or she can prepare for many answers, the truth is what was not a crime yesterday can very well be a crime today; therefore a universal answer would be anything that the authorities governing a geography location deems illegal is a crime. Crime comes in different categories from felony to misdemeanor.
Felonies are characterized as violent crimes, crimes that inflict pain to another’s body: murder and assaults, including domestic violence and assaults committed with motor vehicles; sexual violence; and mental violence. Physical crimes-crimes that inflict pain or death on another person’s body, ...

The allocation of tax dollars is an ever-present debate among Americans, both in and out of legislative positions; one priority in particular is the issue of welfare. In the modern political narrative, there is a perception that 'welfare queens,' those who have the ability or capacity to work but simply accept welfare instead, are a drain on the system. In order to curb this abuse of welfare, the proposition has been made in various state and federal legislatures to implement drug testing policies for welfare recipients. The argument is that this screening would weed out drug users who might theoretically ...

In this modern day and age, our society is bombarded with various issues. Amidst these problems, there are individuals who suffer from serious mental disorders that necessitate special attention. The case of sexual and gender disorder comes in diverse forms. While there are individuals who have difficulty identifying oneself as male or female, there are also those people who are sexually attracted to unusual objects and individuals who have difficulties experiencing arousal (Durand, 2015). Fortunately, this kind of issue can be managed through behavioral rehearsal and cognitive restructuring.
Another problem that impacts some people is the impulse control disorder ...