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Branch, Marc N. "Drug Addiction. Is It a Disease or Is It Based on Choice? A Review of Gene Heyman 's Addiction: A Disorder of Choice." Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Inc, n.d. Web. 19 Sept. 2015.
The article is a review from Marc N. Branch of the Gene Heyman’s Addiction: A disorder of choice . Gene Heyman researches through a huge variety of different evidence on the phenomena of drug addiction. He argues that people don’t want to become an addict but normal choices can lead them into a condition like that. Gene Heyman discusses on how drug abuse and alcohol abuse is a brain disease. He also discusses a lot about treatment on …show more content…
This website is different from some of the other sources because it is a review of a book. The information is reliable because it is a government website and he lists facts from NIDA national institute on drug abuse and the NIAAA the national institute on alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Some of the information in this article was biased but there were many objective facts. The goal of this source was to review in depth a book wiritten on addiction.
Davies, Sallie. "Drug Addiction Is Not a Criminal Issue." The Guardian, n.d. Web.
The chief medical officer Sally Davies in England says Addiction is a medical problem and should not be treated as a crime. Society treats it as a criminal justice issue even though it is a public health problem. The article also quotes a department of health spokesman who says that the government is trying to stop the alcohol and drug dependency.
The source was not very useful because it did not contain a lot of information. Comparing to the other sources this one is very small. the source is objective because it has two different opinions on the subject. The goal of this source is to show that the drug problem should be solved with jail time because its not …show more content…
It discusses the excess amount of prisoners the United States has in their jails. It explains how addiction being a disease is a very popular debated topic and then goes in depth about drug addiction being a disease. It talks about how treatment instead of prison time is needed. Prosecutors are more concerned on putting the person in jail instead of helping them and putting them in a treatment facility. At the end of the article it has a link for treatment facility for people suffering with addiction.
This source was definitely one of the most useful sources because of the huge amount of information given. Not only did it have facts it had explanations to each point. The source was set towards giving the right facts that proved the point that addiction is a disease and should be treated as one.
This source was extremely helpful to me and proving my point. It will help me add lots of facts and great points to my essay. Many of the percentages from this website are going to be used in my argument and some the quotes. This increased my argument confidence in saying that addiction is an illness and should not be treated as
Branch, Marc N. "Drug Addiction. Is It a Disease or Is It Based on Choice? A Review of Gene Heyman 's Addiction: A Disorder of Choice." Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior. Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Inc, n.d. Web. 19 Sept. 2015.
The article is a review from Marc N. Branch of the Gene Heyman’s Addiction: A disorder of choice . Gene Heyman researches through a huge variety of different evidence on the phenomena of drug addiction. He argues that people don’t want to become an addict but normal choices can lead them into a condition like that. Gene Heyman discusses on how drug abuse and alcohol abuse is a brain disease. He also discusses a lot about treatment on …show more content…
This website is different from some of the other sources because it is a review of a book. The information is reliable because it is a government website and he lists facts from NIDA national institute on drug abuse and the NIAAA the national institute on alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Some of the information in this article was biased but there were many objective facts. The goal of this source was to review in depth a book wiritten on addiction.
Davies, Sallie. "Drug Addiction Is Not a Criminal Issue." The Guardian, n.d. Web.
The chief medical officer Sally Davies in England says Addiction is a medical problem and should not be treated as a crime. Society treats it as a criminal justice issue even though it is a public health problem. The article also quotes a department of health spokesman who says that the government is trying to stop the alcohol and drug dependency.
The source was not very useful because it did not contain a lot of information. Comparing to the other sources this one is very small. the source is objective because it has two different opinions on the subject. The goal of this source is to show that the drug problem should be solved with jail time because its not …show more content…
It discusses the excess amount of prisoners the United States has in their jails. It explains how addiction being a disease is a very popular debated topic and then goes in depth about drug addiction being a disease. It talks about how treatment instead of prison time is needed. Prosecutors are more concerned on putting the person in jail instead of helping them and putting them in a treatment facility. At the end of the article it has a link for treatment facility for people suffering with addiction.
This source was definitely one of the most useful sources because of the huge amount of information given. Not only did it have facts it had explanations to each point. The source was set towards giving the right facts that proved the point that addiction is a disease and should be treated as one.
This source was extremely helpful to me and proving my point. It will help me add lots of facts and great points to my essay. Many of the percentages from this website are going to be used in my argument and some the quotes. This increased my argument confidence in saying that addiction is an illness and should not be treated as