The medical consequences of addiction, such as lung and cardiovascular disease, stroke, and cancer are also discussed. Although addiction is a brain disease, it can be treated and relapsing to drug abuse does not mean the treatment failure. This article is worth reading because it is a comprehensive article that concentrates on important information on…
Brain change directly correlates with the brain’s synaptic response and growth. In contrast, brain change does not qualify as addiction, unless the brain change is abnormal. In fact,we gain synapses all the time, increasing the range of knowledge and skills we can accomplish, but as those skills turn into habits, those synapses are pruned or cut back because the brain no longer needs all those synapses to perform the task that you have became so good at. At this point in time, a habit is formed. As Lewis said, forming an addiction is like learning to ride a bike, and the individual is forming a habit.…
Lydia Chakalos Professor J. Hughes English 120 16 October 2016 Rough Draft of Pro/ Con Essay The topic, addiction, is very stigmatized. In the article, “Addiction Is Not A Disease” By Gene M. Heyman, he takes the opposing side of Michael Craig Miller’s, “Addiction Is A Brain Disease”.…
Web. 19 Jan. 2016 Blaser, Larry. “Addiction.” The Gale Encyclopedia of Science. Ed.…
However, as we learn more about the science of addiction, the disease model takes a firmer hold as the correct model. It is a model I firmly believe in, both from my readings and my clinical experience. Another model is that addiction is narcissism. The need to get “high” is a means to reduce the insecurity that…
What is addiction? How does one become addicted? What causes us to become addicted? These unanswered questions and nearly hundreds of others have prompted the scientific and psychological communities to allocate a great amount of time, money, and research into unlocking the inside workings of addiction. Though we have compiled enormous amounts of data and experimental research regarding this terrible state of being, some of these questions are still left unanswered.…
Madeline Hernandez Mr. Sanchez Health Career 17 February 2017 Heroin Heroin is a highly addictive drug that is used mainly by teenagers and young adults. Researchers have found that people who use heroin tend to become addicted. As the user of the drug becomes addicted they will spend more of their energy and more of their time obtaining the drug. Heroin will eventually take control and change the persons brain, thoughts, actions, movements and even personality. Heroin has many different names that people call it.…
One definition says that addiction involves changes in the brain. In turn, people view brain change as a bad thing, Lewis shows that brain change is not negative. Learning and development involves brain change. Humans require brain change, without change the brain would not mature and thinking would not become efficient. Thus, brain change seen is addiction is not considered brain disease, unless it is very different from that seen in normal development.…
Research and technology have increased awareness of addiction processes work, with advanced achievement in the discovery and the mapping of neurotransmitters and hormones which strongly affect our feelings and inclinations. These new aspects of endocrine and nervous system function are key to the increased understanding of addiction. They have major roles in perception, cognition, and expression. But more importantly, they regulate and determine moods, emotions and motivations. Here is where addiction resides!…
Briefly describe and critically evaluate one or more models of addictive behaviour. Models of addictive behaviour aim to explain the initiation, maintenance and relapse of addictive behaviour. The Biological Model and The Cognitive Model are two that aim to do this. The biological model describes addiction as being a disease and enforces the idea that the addiction can’t be reversed even with treatment.…
Addiction is commonly used as an equivalent for dependence which, according to John Jung, is “the state in which the user no longer seems to be able to control his or her usage… a strong physiological or psychological need to use alcohol or drugs” (2001, p. 40). According to Dr. Marco Diana, a disease or pathology is “A derailment from normal functioning of a system/organ/cell (physiology), and ultimately of the whole organism” (2013, p. 1). From my limited understanding of neurobiology, psychology, and behavior, I have come to the conclusion that addiction, whether to alcohol or other drugs does not meet the requirements of a disease. I will examine some arguments from both sides to illustrate the complexity of the issue, and why I have come to this conclusion.…
Outline Thesis Statement: Many Americans would argue that conviction is the best solution to eliminate the number of teenagers addicted to drugs, however the best solution to the problem is a combination of parents, school systems, and friends coming together and informing their teens. I. What is addiction? II. Many teenagers do not know the effects drugs and alcohol can have on their bodies. A.…
The topic of my essay is drug addiction in the United States and how it is a disease. I will provide information from my research to support my argument of why it is a disease and not a choice. There were studies that had shown that the brain of an addict is affected when they use their drug of choice by way of brain scans. Addiction is a disease which if not treated properly can spiral into something far worse. Many people begin with a mental illness such as depression.…
Brain changes in addicts are not abnormal, and do not prove the brain disease theory which is the first argument that drug addiction is a choice and not a disease. The overall argument in this essay is whether…
Drug Users Should Go To Treatment Drug addiction is an illness causing extreme drug craving, drug seeking and use. Despite all the consequences it still continues. Drug addiction begins with the single act of taking drugs, and over time the ability to choose not to do so becomes harder and harder. Taking drugs and seeking the high becomes a compulsion. The behavior results from prolonged drug exposure on the brain and how it functions.…