Essays on Drug Addiction

{Author Name [first-name middle-name-initials last-name]} {Institution Affiliation [name of Author’s institute]} Behavior and substance abuse related issues are also a challenge to the every section of the society. The problem of substance abuse has been common across all the cultures and occupations as well as nursing profession. The data suggests that one out of ten nurses may be impaired, taking drugs or has been a drug addict. According to the calculations of the American Nurses Association (1997) 10-20% nurses have the problem of chemical impairment or substance abuse and 6% to 8% registered nurses are the victim of ...

Teen drug addiction is a major problem present in the society, and delinquent youth often end up relapsing into their addiction after they have been undergoing treatment and have stayed in a correctional facility. It is true to the extent that many youths who have been admitted to juvenile correctional facilities have faced educational, financial and family issues which have made them delinquent and residing to drugs. Amongst those in the facility and under judicial orders were those, who were regular drug abusers and were found guilty on multiple occasions. Relapsing into a former condition will have various factors ...

Addiction can have devastating consequences on families. Many people become so caught up in the whirlwind of hard drugs that they lose touch with reality and begin to forget the person they used to be. They make decisions based on the drugs instead of using common sense, and people tend to get very hurt, and in many cases, they die. People will do anything for money, including committing crimes, and those crimes can end up leading them to jail or other criminal punishment. In Anthony’s Intervention episode, his addiction has a significant affect on all aspects of his ...

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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 ( ...

Drug addiction and brotherly love. Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin. Drug addiction and brotherly love. Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin. African American literature frequently reveals the suffering of people who live in the world full of racism. The Western society used to put African American people in unfavorable conditions throughout the whole history and life in this condition may lead to tragic circumstances. The following essay concerns the story named “Sonny’s Blues” which was written by James Baldwin. It will discuss the main themes of the story which are struggling of people who live in the ...

Introduction

Anger is a normal emotion among the people, but sometimes it becomes a stern problem if not controlled properly. Causes of violence include stress, poor social situations, trauma, drug addiction, and mental disability among others. Uncontrolled anger causes physical health problems such as blood pressure; it affects the mental health negatively, destroys relationships and careers. Therefore, there is the need to come up with strategies that will help people in identifying the possible triggers and methods of calming down anger. Anger management activities should play a significant role in creating the connection between the mind and body. It implies ...

Introduction

The World Health Organization (n.d) defines substance abuse as the harmful or hazardous uptake of psychoactive chemicals, including illicit drugs and alcohol. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (2014), substance abuse refers to the use of legal or illegal drugs inappropriately. This term includes the repeated use of drugs for pleasure, stress alleviation or reality alteration as well as the use of prescription medicines in other ways than prescribed (NIDA, 2014). Substance abuse and addiction can lead to potentially fatal diseases such as lung disease, HIV/AIDS, cardiovascular problems, cancer, and hepatitis (Marsiglia et al., 2014). People who ...

Abstract

Over time, substance abuse has been under extensive research from scholars. The topic is prevalent in various areas and more so in the education sector. Most individuals fail to understand the significant difference between substance abuse and addiction. The ideas tend to revolve in the same realm. Therefore, this paper strives to elaborate on addiction and how they are related to mood disorders. Also, the paper delves into the causes and reasons why someone can be involved in a substance abuse, which can lead to mood disorders. The causes of drug addiction are also illustrated giving out the way ...

Introduction

Counseling is a significant collective aspect, especially in the present world where pressures of work, career, and family tend to take a toll on most people. In fact, most organizations today employ a counseling psychologist to attend to the emotional and mental needs of their employees as a step toward maintaining maximum productivity. Youth Off the Streets is an organization dedicated to the well-being of youths living in the streets due to their lack of alternative accommodation. The central role of the organization is to attend to the immediate need of these youths, which is accommodation, and to provide ...

The modern world is changing up so quickly, and getting connected with a really crucial speed. One of such sufficient processes is globalization. Globalization in simple terms is usually known as the process during which the world is transformed into a single unified system. At the end of the last century, globalization has become a hot topic for debates all around the world and it has not yet stopped. However, globalization is not a new process, since it implies the integration of the economic, cultural, political and religious spheres. Today globalization caused both positive and negative consequences and this ...

Mental disorders take a toll on a person’s life, affecting not only their emotional and psychological health but also by imposing negative effects on their physical health and well-being. This is the reason why it is very important to treat mental disorders very keenly and to take extra care in the kind of treatment which is being given to people with mental illnesses. Doctors and specialists compose a very balanced proportion of medication for the patients so they can heal properly and their drugs can have positive, curative effects on their mental health. Along with medication and various ...

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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 ...

"Requiem for a Dream" is a psychological drama which was directed by Darren Aronofsky. The movie depicts the life story of four main characters: Sara Goldfarb, her son Harry Goldfarb, Harry's girlfriend Marion Silver, and their friend Tyrone C. Love. Sarah Goldfarb is an old widow who lives alone in her apartment on Brighton Beach Brooklyn, spending the majority of her time watching television. Her son, Harry, shows up at her house to steal different things, including his mother's favorite TV, and sell them in order to get money and buy drugs. Sarah buys all the things from pawn ...

“Hey, didn’t you just take a class on drugs? How can we fix the problem of drugs in society?”

Drug addiction is a serious issue in the modern society and requires not only individual approach but also a treatment on the social level. Treatment of drug addiction is not a fast process and implies a thorough approach. There is no cure-all from addiction, however, in the emerging medical approaches, vaccination and immunotherapies are getting a wide prevalence. Successful treatment can be divided into several steps: detoxification, behavioral counseling, medication, evaluation and treatment for co-occurring mental health issues such as depression and anxiety, and long-term follow-up to prevent relapse (National Institute on Drug Abuse). Scientists and phycologists agreed 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 ...

The issue of drug addiction and abuse of other substances has always been a very controversial matter. One thing is clear: "the use and abuse of drugs creates an enormous toll on our nation's health, its economy, and families and communities" (Belenko & Spohn, 2015, p. 1). Although the negative consequences of substance and drug abuse are well-known to everybody, people differ in opinion regarding drug legalization and whether any individual should have a civil right to abuse drugs. Some people argue that an individual should be responsible for his/her choices and, therefore, they should have a civil right to ...

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 ...

One of the leading trends in the economic theory of crime and punishment has become an economic analysis of organized crime. Prohibition era has led to an increase in crime and the formation of a huge number of organized criminal groups of black and significant enrichment of crime. "The condemnation of blackness" examines what constitutes a crime as a socio-economic institution, what are the economic characteristics of its functioning, how it affects society and what are the laws of its evolution. The segregation of the black population has forced many of them to go to the North. From 1913 ...

Throughout history, Americans have been documented to have abused various drugs starting from precolonial times America as it is well documented that Christopher Columbus, the explorer that discovered America, found other mind-affecting drugs which he brought back to Europe on his first voyage to modern-day (Elaine, n.d.). However, until the late 1880s, prohibitionists and abstentionists had an easy time in addressing the drug abuse among the population, since all the supply point was known and easily identified. Nonetheless, the country failed to have a comprehensive legal framework that was engineered to address the drug abuse problem due to rapid ...

Background of the Problems

Theories Related to Successful Aging Bowling (2005) defined successful aging from a sociological perspective highlighting that "the substantial increases in life expectancy at birth achieved over the previous century, combined with medical advances, escalating health and social care costs, and higher expectations for older age, have led to international interest in how to promote a healthier old age and how to age successfully" (p.1). To this end, some research studies have outlined theories which can be applied to successful aging. DeLiema & Bengston (2015) examined both the activity theory and disengagement theory. Specifically, these theories have been stated to be ...

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The discussions of addiction challenged the way I view substance use problems because they contain a lot of scientific information. Alan Leshner (1997) stressed that drug addiction is a disease that is the result of the prolong effect drugs on brain. It includes behavioral and social-context problems. The author stated that the public perception of this problem does not respond real scientific facts. The important idea is that people should be aware that drug addiction is a real disease in order to treat in a right way. Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld (2010) mentioned that the ...

Mental Illness Among Criminals

The prison systems have been over populated by many criminals in our country. The increasing rate of prisoners who have been diagnosed with mental illness is increasing. Many criminals have either been diagnosed with mental illness before being arrested and put into prison or they were diagnosed with mental issues after being incarcerated. The inmates with mental illness while committing crimes may have done so because of their illness. The people who were incarcerated and then diagnosed could have had mental problems because of the prisons system they are now living in. It can cause inmates to become depressed, ...

This study aims to identify reasons for growth in female prison population in China and propose possible solution to the problem. One of the difficulties of this study is that little research and data is available on China’s women in prisons.

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Female offenders constitute a small fraction of total number of people in China, however this number is dramatically increasing which is alarming and cannot be negotiated. According to the statistics provided by Institute for Criminal Policy Research, the percentile of female population in prisons significantly increased over last years ("China | World Prison Brief", 2016). Number of women ...

Introduction

The paper will examine the effects and solutions of substance abuse among the teens in America. A brief history of substance abuse in America is analyzed to give the audience the present situation in America. The preceding section involves examining how substance abuse has led to the lives of American teenagers. Drugs cause nausea, liver damage, and malfunctions the damage. In addition, teens that abuse drugs lose concentration, and compel them to miss classes and these results in high school dropouts. American youths under the influence of narcotics are deceived that the crimes may be a potential opportunity to ...

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 ...

Nowadays, Internet has become firmly established in the life of the society as a global information system. Being present in practically every home, Internet has considerably expanded the opportunities in the process of information search and exchange, communication between people, especially the so-called social networking sites or social media, which are very popular among people of all ages, especially among children and teenagers. Communication plays an important role for the development of the individual at each age stage, but for young people communication and interpersonal relations are a vital factor in the formation of their personality. The special role ...

Requiem for a Dream is the American motion picture shot in 2000 by Darren Aranofsky. Based on the novel of the same name by Hubert Selby, Jr., the film got a critical acclaim and is still considered one of the best films ever made. The film’s praised soundtrack composed by Clint Mansell inspired numerous filmmakers and musicians as well as charmed the audience who easily recognizes the string quartet melodies from Requiem for a Dream. The film tells the audience a story of four individuals connected by the drug addiction. The director shows the characters’ rapid decline splitting ...

Introduction

Today the world is still reeling from the shocking surge of drug abuse cases. Drug abuse and addiction have direct negative effects for the individual and the society at large. Drug abuse is defined as the continued use of a drug in which the user consumes the substance in a way or method that is harmful to their health. Prolonged drug abuse seeks to drug addiction which is a chronic brain disease that drives the victim to compulsive drug use despite the underlying harmful consequences ("Drug abuse by mature women takes its toll in the US", 1998, P. 9). ...

Family environment is the foundation of child’s healthy development. The role of the parents in the family is very important; rather family is formed with parents only. The major role of parents in the family is to raise the child with responsibility. When the person is small, family is his/her only world. But the situation does not remain the same in his/her adolescent phase. This phase is very different and the scope of the person’s life starts expanding gradually. The friends, peers are equally important in this age. Still the teenagers cannot completely be separated from his/her ...

Abstract

American troops serving in Vietnam turned to drugs and alcohol to deal with the atrocities of war. Initially, the drug of choice in the war was marijuana. However, when the problem was discovered, the military took actions to eliminate marijuana use. This provided an avenue for heroin to become the drug of choice. The production of heroin in Vietnam, the easy accessibility to the drug and the relatively low cost of the drug attracted American troops. It did not take long for heroin addiction to become significant among the troops. Heroin use began to deteriorate the health, welfare, discipline ...

Human Behavior – Development in Midlife Lachman’s (Lachman’s, 2004)

The purpose of the author is to summarize the findings relating to salient issues and themes of midlife such as physical and psychological changes brought by aging, and the balance between work ad family responsibilities. This objective arises from addressing the need to explore midlife developments considering the large demographic shifts in the population. In order to accomplish this, the author reviewed previous studies and summarized the findings from the reviewed research. Furthermore, the concept was highlighted in the article using conceptual frameworks encompassing the study of multiple patterns of changes in midlife. Conclusively, the author was able to ...

During the last century, scientists involved in research and studies on drug abuse were governed by the powerful misconceptions and fabricated stories about the addictive nature of the drugs and the reason behind drug addiction. Proper scientific studies on drug addiction started in the 1930s when the research was done to learn the behavioral aspects of addiction. People who were addicted to drug usage were considered as immoral individuals and those who lack willpower. During that time, these viewpoints shaped the response of the society towards drug abuse, considering it as an immoral act rather than treating it as ...

Introduction

Towards the end of the twentieth century and in the first decade of the twenty first century, the world has undergone a drastic change. This has been, in a large measure due to the tremendous advances in transportation technology and internet communication technology. Goods and services from any corner of the world are accessible to anyone in any other part of the world. The rich and the middle class all over the world have access to latest in fashion, food and electronics. However, in every country, a considerable fraction of the population live in abject poverty and the modern ...

Abstract

The study has focused on the topic of substance abuse among African American teen residing in Mott Haven area of Bronx United States. The paper has started by giving an overview that entails defining the topic’s key terms. Also, the study has highlighted and discussed the statistics showing the frequency of drug and substance abuse among the African American youngsters. As the report has indicated, the teens fall under the age bracket of 12 to 17 years. The paper has explained the drugs abused most by the youngsters with alcohol taking the lead, followed by marijuana, inhalants as ...

Business

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY When a person is considered to be chemically dependent, it means that he has lost the power and authority over his own life and moods. They might stop temporarily from using the mood-altering chemicals, but they cannot stay away from it. Even if the person claims to have a lot of resistance and will-power, still it would be difficult to quit it. It involves many risks like being in a bad relationship with friends and family, being neglected at workplace due to anti-social behavior, always being under observation and checking by police, being labeled as the bad guy among ...

Asthma

Aetiology - A combination of factors, primarily environmental and genetic factors, are believed to cause asthma - Allergens, which are airborne, cause the disease; they include pollen, mold and animal dander among others - Irritants such as smoke and dust also cause the disease - Tough stress and depression - Physical activities and particular medications can induce asthma - People with a genetic predisposition to utilize Tp helper cell can contract the disease

Pathogenesis

- Fundamentally, asthma comes in as immunological - Several factors obstruct the airway, injury of the epithelium, bronchospasm, edema, a higher ...

The first principle is ruling out rival hypotheses. This principle means that only one explanation would be relevant in explaining a given claim. A situation may be defined by different arguments or explanation, which may be seen as relevant to a given a situation. However, most of them may not be relevant in making excellent conclusion over a given matter. At a pool of explanations, the most outstanding explanation matters most. Although, it is a bit hard to differentiate, or identify the most outstanding explanation individuals ...

Introduction

The social problem in this case will be drug addicts. There are various types of drugs that can be abused such as alcohol, tobacco, heroin, cocaine, marijuana, etc. Such drugs create dependence syndrome on the user if it is used for long periods of time. Therefore, they are meant to be avoided, and young children taught to avoid them and influences that may cause them to take drugs. The drugs alter the body and the mind and the individual starts behaving in an unusual manner. The person usually stops doing all the things that they found joy in as ...

Interview as a social research method

Introduction

Research plays an integral role in enhancing quality of life and transforming the society. It is defined as a scientific and systematic inquiry that is involves the use of inductive and deductive approaches to examine a social problem. Social scientists understand that research is important because it enables them to describe, predict, explain and solve social problems. As scientists, social scientists employ different research methods to conduct social research and valid their claims empirically. Although research methods differ in many aspects, they can grouped in two main dimensions namely; qualitative design and quantitative design. In quantitative design, a social scientist collects, ...

Drug courts play a vital role in the criminal justice system. The war against drug, which had started some decades back, is one of the causes of the ballooning of prison population in the US. Today, the US has the most populated prison system in the world (Hale et al 2013, p. 517). Drug courts can whittle down prison population and cut down recidivism rates. They add a facet to the criminal justice system – one that does not only judge and incarcerate, but help in restoring a person as a good member of society. The help that drug courts offer, thus, includes ...

In the scenario presented, three ethical schools are applicable in providing the best solution(s). The three ethical schools include consequentialist theory, deontological theory and virtue theory. Consequentialist/utilitarian school of thought considers the end of an action, deontological school of thought considers the motive of an action, and virtue theory considers whether the action conforms to what is right.

Coming back to the scenario in question, the decision made by the court has the full backing of ethics. This is because the virtue theory, for instance, evaluates the kind of life an individual wants to live before determining the ...

The article of Berman and Fox (2009) presented the history of D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Research Education) program, and the main objective of the program which is to prevent drug addiction among the youth. For this study, the police officers were required to undergo trainings in order to lead educational sessions in local schools. The main purpose of the program is to educate young children of the long-term impact of teen drug abuse. The study revealed that those teens coming from suburban towns are more prone to be lured to drug addiction.

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Organized crime integrates established successful principles used by lawful business organizations (Mallory, 2012). Accordingly, they operate like business enterprises only that what they do is illegal. The causative factors for these groups range from ethnicity, race, and political. The common factor however is they are all illegal.

Examples of organized criminal groups based on race or ethnicity in California are the Bloods and the Los Angeles crime family. Both groups are highly centralized with a chain of command. In both, the top brass are rarely seen in public but the group’s presence is felt and seen in public; owing ...

While many scholar psychologists argue that abstinence is perhaps the only viable way of treating drug addiction, other scholars have demonstrated that controlled use of alcohol and the addictive drug can also provide a realistic solution to the problem. It is paramount for stakeholders to agree that drug addiction is a treatable condition. However, treating drug related syndromes requires that the treatment model is tailored to the needs of the victims. One way of administering this treatment model is by allowing the victims to control their condition and live normal and productive lives. I think that drug and substance abuse is ...

Abstract

The research paper discusses the origin and nature of methadone, including the historical aspect of its development and further commercial and scientific use. The paper also describes the pharmacology of methadone, including the route of administration of the drug, its metabolism and its mechanism of action. Next section of the paper explains the experience in medical use of methadone, as it`s a great alternative to the painkillers based on the opiates, it plays a major role in the therapy of maintaining and replacement and treating the withdrawals syndromes. The positive effects on the pregnant patients are also described here with a ...

In America, the predicament of drug abuse and drug trafficking can be curbed through many different resilient ways rather than decriminalization or rehabilitation. The government may skyrocket the rates of incarcerations for the narcotic users. Ronald Reagan made this effective in the 1980s and 1990s, and it may as well work in the current world. The public should as well be concerned about the issue on illicit drug use. The media should display the portrayals of addicted drug victims. For instance, displaying a victim who is a cocaine user, dubbed (Johnson, 2012 p.34). This will instill fear into the ...

Having an addiction of any kind is dangerous. However, one kind of addiction that involves the most amount of health risk is drug addiction. Drug addiction is an ill that can rear its ugly head no matter who you are, and that is reason enough to take notice of it. Sadly though, despite what many people would like to believe, addiction to drugs is still very much a part of modern society, and the numbers surrounding the addiction are mind boggling to say the least. According to figures provided by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, around 167 ...

Johnny Tello addiction to cocaine has resulted to other crimes that he has to commit so as to ensure that he can maintain the crack supply. He has even gone to the extent of stealing from his parents, the people expected to be taking care of him. It is difficult for his parents to perform their parental duties to such a person since he has become a social challenge even within the family. His new circle of friends has influenced his behavior, and unless he is isolated from them his cocaine addiction is not something that will go soon. After robbing a ...

Abstract

Addiction is multicultural meaning that it could occur to anyone regardless of their race, social standings or culture. There are many addictions in the world today, but the most common are gambling addiction, alcohol and drug addiction, sex addiction, shopping addiction and video games addiction. These addictions have become troublesome in the community in that most people in the society have had a family membesr fall prey to the addiction. The addiction has caused a lot of consequences to the victims and the society. For the victims or addicts it has landed them in prison, made them homeless and ended up ...

Many causes and effects of drug addiction are both related as to why a person is using illegal drugs and the outcome of becoming a drug addict. Being a drug addict creates a negative cycle, which undeniably precipitates some anomalies in the human brain. The process will result in strong cravings as well as involuntary inclination that prompt to use drugs. Drug addiction is a very serious threat to public safety and public health, not only in the United States, but also all over the world. Drug addiction develops in many ways. To better understand the causes of addiction, it would be essential to ...

Ethical Disclaimer:

This paper discusses the psychological aspects of Drew Barrymore in light of etiology of her drug addiction and alcoholism. The contents of this paper are gathered from various resources available online and on print about the life of Drew Barrymore. This paper is a product of research from other first-hand sources already available for public reading. Facts are merely collected and selected to come up with the final output. Thoughts and opinions embedded in this article do not represent the subject, any website or any medical institution. This paper is intended for academic purposes only. Several works are quoted and ...

Health education is one of the most important kinds of classes that teenagers need, as their health and future both depend on their awareness of the problems drugs can cause in their lives. What should we do for teenagers not to become addicts? What are the first symptoms of teenage drug addiction? What type of drug harms in the most destructive way? Why can people suddenly die from heroin or methamphetamine? Why marijuana is the easiest and also the most dangerous drug? What is the average lifespan of a drug addict? Why is it almost not possible to recover from ...

Introduction

Quality of life is the quality of an individual’s daily life indicates the assessment of quality of wellbeing and lack of wellbeing. Wellbeing of a person maybe in terms of physical and psychological aspects. In healthcare, health related quality of life (HRQL) is the assessment which shows how the wellbeing of an individual may be affected in the future by any disease, disorders or disabilities. This paper is a concept analysis of health related quality of life in young people who are suffering with chronic illness. Concept analysis is a way of deriving conceptual hierarchy from a collection of objects and their ...

Drug addiction is chronic and is usually a relapsing brain disease causing compulsive drug use and seeking. Irrespective of the harmful consequences resulting from the drug addiction, it influences the users and those around them. Drug addiction remains a critical brain disease as the misuse of drugs leads cause changes in the brain’s structure and function. Even though it is profound that most people make a voluntary initial decision into taking drugs, with time, such brain changes are in place due to repeated drug abuse. They also affect the level of self-control of a person and the ability making sound decisions. They ...

An Argumentative Essay based on Shaylin Muehlmann’s

When I Wear my Alligator Boots The science behind social development lies on the capacity of humans to become more effective in determining a more distinct indication on what the environment’s impact would be on the ways humans live their lives in the face of social changes. It is expected that with every change happening in the society, it could be noted that development is something that cannot be easily disregarded (Muehlmannn, 2013). People’s response to such changes allows the establishment of modern courses of living and progressive behavior. Anthropologists are often the ones in the front ...

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Early Development in Children: The Case of My Classmate

According to Freud, the father of modern psychology people develop their personalities during the earliest stages of life, and they tend to instate and reinstate their personal developments in the later phases of their existence because the humans do not have the ability to change their behavioral identities in the mature stages of their lives. There are two major sorts of mental disorders that are quite prevalent in juniors. The children either suffer from internalizing or externalizing phenomena. The former ones include depressive and anxious thoughts and emotions. The attitudes influenced by depression translate into suicidal behaviors, and ...

Introduction

Depression is a mental disorder characterized by the ‘depressive triad’: 1) depressed mood and loss of the ability to experience the pleasure (anhedonia); 2) impaired thinking (negative judgments, pessimistic view of what is happening, and so on; 3) motor retardation. The depression is characterized by lowered self-esteem, the loss of interest in life and usual activities. In some cases, a person suffering from depression can begin to abuse alcohol or other psychotropic substances (Salmans, 1995). As a mental disorder, depression is a violation of the affect. Depression can be treated, but now the depression is the most widespread mental disorder. Every ...

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Drug abuse (also known as ‘Substance Abuse’) is rampant in various parts of the world. It poses unique challenges to a society that is preoccupied with the business of living. It not only affects the quality of life of an individual, but also has a bearing on the social fabric of the community at large. The dependence on drugs shows a deep-seated weakness of the human mind for mood enhancers. One feels transported to a different plane initially. However, dependence sets in with repeated and prolonged use. The western hemisphere shows similar traits in this regard. Europe in general and ...

Addictive behaviors are both reinforcing and rewarding. They become the primary focus of an individual’s life to the disadvantage of other activities. They are of many types of addictive behaviors with sex and drug addictions being among the major addictions (Wu. et al., 2006). Drug addiction (substance dependence) occurs when a person experiences a high need of taking the drug. Addiction happens to a particular kind/class of drug. Sex addiction occurs when one experiences a progressive urge of engaging in sex. It is characterized by compulsive sexual acts and thoughts.

Common Characteristics of Sex and Drug Addiction Behaviors

- They both make a person obsessed by them. - Withdrawal symptoms ...