Addiction Impacts Negatively on Cognitive Functions
Science, as always, is looking at new ways to understand the link between decision-making skills and substance abuse. The hypothesis is that not everybody is born with the same decision-making skills. Some, therefore, are more susceptible to bad or unhealthy choices than others. The jury is still out on whether genetic coding is responsible for poor decision-making. Research has linked substance abuse to poor choice and unhealthy decision – making processes.
If you've never been in the throes of addiction yourself, you nonetheless know that addiction has negative consequences in many different areas. Not least of these, addiction impacts negatively on cognitive functions.
It's easy to …show more content…
The alcoholic - addicts who are lucky may find treatment for their addiction before they have done permanent physical damage to themselves, or before they have harmed others to any great degree. Going through therapy and learning new coping behaviors so that they can handle life without their drug of choice can help them become fully functioning people once again.
However, there may be lasting consequences to addiction too, such as brain damage from substance abuse that doesn't reverse itself even once the addict is clean. If this is the case, the addict may have lasting brain damage or other physical damage that he or she must deal with in addition to the consequences of their behavior during the addiction. This of course makes recovery much more difficult to achieve on a permanent basis, but is still not impossible if the addict is motivated and wants to stay clean.
Recent research studies link the probability that some people are at a higher risk of suicide, or engaging in unhealthy thinking, emotions and feelings if they do not receive the proper support, treatment and help to deal with the underlying cause for their mental state. Moreover, he or she when unsupported and are living in an unhealthy environment are more likely to make bad decisions based on poor choices that serve not to support …show more content…
While this isn’t an excuse for making bad decisions, it could explain the reasons why many people find it difficult to turn their backs on a variety of potentially addictive forming substances, legal or illegal drugs, and risk-taking behaviour.
Science Challenges Old Schools of Thinking
Prior to the advancement of scientific research, an alcoholic or a drug addict were incorrectly perceived as weak-willed people lacking moral fiber or strength to fight the demons of their addictions. Current studies challenge that school of thought. Modern researchers argue that a person suffering from an addiction is not morally weak, nor do they lack the necessary strength to say no to their addiction. Instead there are multiple factors that come into play which include individual personality, psychology, physical tolerance, inherited risk markers, environment, and genetic
Science, as always, is looking at new ways to understand the link between decision-making skills and substance abuse. The hypothesis is that not everybody is born with the same decision-making skills. Some, therefore, are more susceptible to bad or unhealthy choices than others. The jury is still out on whether genetic coding is responsible for poor decision-making. Research has linked substance abuse to poor choice and unhealthy decision – making processes.
If you've never been in the throes of addiction yourself, you nonetheless know that addiction has negative consequences in many different areas. Not least of these, addiction impacts negatively on cognitive functions.
It's easy to …show more content…
The alcoholic - addicts who are lucky may find treatment for their addiction before they have done permanent physical damage to themselves, or before they have harmed others to any great degree. Going through therapy and learning new coping behaviors so that they can handle life without their drug of choice can help them become fully functioning people once again.
However, there may be lasting consequences to addiction too, such as brain damage from substance abuse that doesn't reverse itself even once the addict is clean. If this is the case, the addict may have lasting brain damage or other physical damage that he or she must deal with in addition to the consequences of their behavior during the addiction. This of course makes recovery much more difficult to achieve on a permanent basis, but is still not impossible if the addict is motivated and wants to stay clean.
Recent research studies link the probability that some people are at a higher risk of suicide, or engaging in unhealthy thinking, emotions and feelings if they do not receive the proper support, treatment and help to deal with the underlying cause for their mental state. Moreover, he or she when unsupported and are living in an unhealthy environment are more likely to make bad decisions based on poor choices that serve not to support …show more content…
While this isn’t an excuse for making bad decisions, it could explain the reasons why many people find it difficult to turn their backs on a variety of potentially addictive forming substances, legal or illegal drugs, and risk-taking behaviour.
Science Challenges Old Schools of Thinking
Prior to the advancement of scientific research, an alcoholic or a drug addict were incorrectly perceived as weak-willed people lacking moral fiber or strength to fight the demons of their addictions. Current studies challenge that school of thought. Modern researchers argue that a person suffering from an addiction is not morally weak, nor do they lack the necessary strength to say no to their addiction. Instead there are multiple factors that come into play which include individual personality, psychology, physical tolerance, inherited risk markers, environment, and genetic