Essays on Addictions

Part A

Effects of different substances that can lead to addiction. Part B Addiction is an international challenge that costs countless masses of lives every year and leads to indescribable misery. It can comprise consumption of legal and illegal drugs like liquor, nicotine, opioids, stimulating substances, steroids, medicament anesthetics, tranquillizers or cannabis. The discipline of addiction has progressed to a level at which it is appropriate to inspect the widespread assortment of primary tools that have been recognized and consider what they indicate for the progress of a complete approach for fighting the challenge. There are two basic models that conceptualize ...

Everybody is addicted to something; addiction is a disease that does not discriminate. According to the latest research done by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, approximately 22.7 million Americans require treatment for certain drug and substance addictions (Patterson).Addiction surely does not discriminate and for years celebrities have fallen prey to drug and substance abuse. In spite of the status, fame and fortune addiction plays a very fair game and this is evident in the very common reports of famous celebrities who have publically struggled with drug and substance addictions, others even experiencing a public relapse ( ...

Abstract

One of the most prevalent addictions in our society that has far-reaching social, economic and psychological ramifications is alcoholism. At least 16.3 million Americans who are above 18 years have Alcohol Use Disorder as at 2014. However, not everyone who consumes or excessively consumes alcohol ends up with alcohol use disorder. This study speculates that persons with alcohol addiction have an inherently addictive personality and goes ahead to propose a study to investigate it. Using a random sample, a two group-study will be implemented. Personality test will be used to collect information on addictive personality. A t-test for two-groups ...

English 1100

Today more and more people are getting the feeling that they are living a draft, and someday later, their life will be transmitted onto a clean copy. Trying to fill in the void inside, they still get no satisfaction. It leads to various outcomes, some better, and some worse. What people eventually want is a piece of happiness – an abstract term that everybody interprets individually. Elizabeth Renzetti and Gabor Mate each describe the factors that contribute to and symptoms that arise from loneliness and substance abuse, respectively. Mate claims that some people find chemical substances give them what they ...

Psychology

Rohypnol is a sedative drug used as a short-term treatment for insomnia. It can also be used as a pre-medication in surgical procedures, and some doctors use it to induce anesthesia. The drug causes partial amnesia, and someone might not be able to remember some events that happened when they were under the influence. That is the reason why it is usually called the rape drug, because it is used by revelers to spike the drinks of unsuspecting people, then leading them to do things that they would not have done if they were sober. Apart from its fame ...

Edgar Allen Poe: few names such as this one can strike both fear and adoration in hearts of literature students everywhere. As a writer, Poe was known for his macabre stories that often ended with characters becoming ill, being buried alive, or dying other gruesome, torturous deaths. The tone of his works is fairly consistent, with most of Poe’s work having a dark, moody, and an overall melancholy tone. With his stories being favored as a topic of research for many English students, I began to wonder about his personal life. What struggles was he grappling with that ...

【A】 I believe that marijuana should be legalized based on the medical impacts of the drug. The federal government of the United States lifted the ban against the use of marijuana, thus states that have legalized the drug can do it without approval from the national government. I view people in states that have legalized the drug as privileged, particularly for both medicinal and recreational use. Marijuana presents a psychoactive effect to the user leading to a general improvement in the mood and euphoria. The drug does not have severe impacts on the user. Therefore, I always wonder why ...

How a Bill Becomes a Law

SITUATION: IS THIS SOMETHING THAN CAN BE LEGISLATED? Identify the problem/concern: Drug addiction is a complex issue that contains an adverse consequence for the community members. The estimate of the total costs associated with drug and substance abuse in the community include crime and health complications. On another view, drug and substance abusers lack moral principles to stop using drugs by changing the behavior in the community. Consequently, drug and substance abuse manipulate the brain in ways that usually foster compulsive drug and substance abuse. Typically, drugs and substance abuse have led to addictions and chronic replacing brain disease ...

Soveirgn Health Group is a treatment facility for drug and alcohol addiction for teens. “The center is equipped to help all kinds of teens ages 12-17 who have an addiction” . It is an in-house facility where individuals can come and stay to overcome their addictions. The center is secluded with beautiful scenery and has round the clock doctors, nurses, and counselors to assist with each patient’s needs. Each room is private and mimics a bed and breakfast resort for clients who are treated as people and not a number. The group also deals with mental health issues while ...

Introduction

Consumption of addictive psychoactive substances can be traced back to the earliest records of the human history. In ancient past, these psychoactive substances were consumed in various occasions: some priest consumed the substances during religious ceremonies; some substances such as opium were used for medicinal purposes; were consumed by the general population as they were socially accepted. People later devised various potent compounds which were easier to administer. As a result of high administration, addiction and abuse of these substances began. As early as in the 17th century, the concern of overuse of these substances and the loss of ...

The addiction simulation exercise using ice cubes as the drug of choice has become a truly revealing experience showing how easy it is to become addicted and how hard it can become to keep leading a normal life, meeting with friends and family, studying and doing any other activity during addiction. This exercise showed how easy it is to lose connection with the reality during addiction that makes a person view everything from the perspective of addiction. However, indeed, this exercise could not demonstrate the hardships people can experience when trying to break free from the addiction, since I ...

Throughout the years, the world has advanced more through the usage of technology and the benefits it brings. In the beginning, there were only desktop computers that could do a limited amount of work, and now they have been transformed in portable tablets, laptops, and even phones. With this much portability on technology, it was certain that certain websites dedicated to keeping in touch with people were invented. The first successful social media website that was around during the early days of the internet was Myspace. Just like the social media websites today, a person could update their page ...

Annotated Bibliography

Co-Occurrence and Treatment 1. Annotated Bibliography 1. Ta, V. M., Juon, H. S., Gielen, A. C., Steinwachs, D., & Duggan, A. (2008). Disparities in use of mental health and substance abuse services by Asian and Native Hawaiian/other Pacific Islander women. The journal of behavioral health services & research, 35(1), 20-36. This study is very recent which is one of the reasons it was selected for inclusion of my annotated bibliography. The researchers aimed to examined comorbidity of mental illness and substance abuse both of which that require treatment. Therefore, this analysis will yield prevalence of comorbidity as well as the ...

This research was supported in part by a grant from the Sample Grant Program under any special circumstances under which this research is being done and considered.

Abstract

The importance of social media effects on families and communities has been determined by the research findings based on the investigation of existing literature. The principal objective of the study is to examine the influence of social media on our everyday life. Besides, another investigative goal is to identify possible consequences that social media may bring. Therefore, this study implies the utilization of both secondary research and primary research approaches. The expected ...

Introduction

As very well stated by Jeff Wilson (2014) in his book Mindful America, “How Buddhism moves into new cultures and becomes domesticated: in each case, members of the new culture take from Buddhism what they believe will relieve their culture-specific distresses and concerns, in the process spawning new Buddhism (sometimes, crypto-Buddhism) that better fit their needs” (Wilson, 2014, p. 3). Mindfulness in its true form is practicing and taming the mind to learn to live in the present without thinking about past or present while observing from a distance our own self and our thoughts which continue to flow ...

A. I think that the client is vulnerable to become a drug or alcohol addict. The first reason is that his family does not accept his behavior and his personality. The second reason is his environment (clubs) where drugs and alcohol can be more accessible. Also, I think as an addiction counselor I need to discuss with Hal Crisp and his family, his potential suicidal thoughts or actions, because Crisp, obviously, is at risk group for suicide. I believe that in the case of Hal Crisp it will be better to work not only with 19-years- old client, but ...

Neglect means the lack of appropriate attention and care by a person who is responsible for taking care of somebody (for example, of children, of older people, etc.). Neglect also is defined as a passive form of abuse. Neglectful behavior can be recognized in parental unavailability, the lack of cognitive stimulation, and the lack of achievement expectations There are medical, physical, educational and emotional types of neglect. Physical neglect is a failure in providing appropriate nutrition and shelter. Educational neglect is a failure to satisfy educational, developmental needs of a person. Medical neglect is the lack of appropriate treatment ...

ABSTRACT

Addiction is a serious problem in the modern era, in the United States and all over the world. Addictions can be to drugs and alcohol, but people can be addicted to many things. Many feel that addiction is the consequences for poor choices potentially encouraged by environmental factors. However, many argue that addiction is linked to genetics. The predisposition to addiction can be entirely hereditary. That means that some people carry genes that put them at greater risk for becoming an addict, which has been contributing to high addiction statistics. Today science has identified a number of genes that ...