Addiction is the use of mood-altering addicting substances despite adverse consequences. Addiction can take over a person’s ordinary life; it can affect the health, work as well as relationships of the person without them even being aware. A person’s addiction does not determine their strength and morality but the mental illness or the “disease” that they are facing.Substance abuse or addiction is said to be highly influenced by characteristics that are transmitted from our parents via biological mechanism, which are heredity. Sharing 50% our parents genes, this plays a huge role in our behavior.
Addiction is seen as a “disease”, and it has emphasized that it has different elements. Peele (1996) suggests that they are two distinction elements to the addiction construction. Susceptibility - Exposure. The Susceptibility elements says that genetic factors play a major role in substance dependence. The Exposure elements says that the actions of chemicals are causes of addiction which asserts that addiction is a brain disease.The extent to which a person is at-risk for that disease is determined by how much the brain is exposed to drugs which can be abused.These elements can affect their learning, control,motivation and memory making it harder to control their behavior. This can carry a great deal of negative influences across populations, which can also be affected by environmental factors : stress,poor economic conditions as well as drug using affiliations.Research has shown that genetic traits influence susceptibility to nicotine dependence. (Lyons et al., 2008) …show more content…
This system produces pleasure. This can be portrayed as the “high” in implications of expectation and rewards. In this emphases, addicts tend to feel that they no ability to regulate their behavior, which makes recovering very hard. It might make it almost impossible for the person to
Addiction is seen as a “disease”, and it has emphasized that it has different elements. Peele (1996) suggests that they are two distinction elements to the addiction construction. Susceptibility - Exposure. The Susceptibility elements says that genetic factors play a major role in substance dependence. The Exposure elements says that the actions of chemicals are causes of addiction which asserts that addiction is a brain disease.The extent to which a person is at-risk for that disease is determined by how much the brain is exposed to drugs which can be abused.These elements can affect their learning, control,motivation and memory making it harder to control their behavior. This can carry a great deal of negative influences across populations, which can also be affected by environmental factors : stress,poor economic conditions as well as drug using affiliations.Research has shown that genetic traits influence susceptibility to nicotine dependence. (Lyons et al., 2008) …show more content…
This system produces pleasure. This can be portrayed as the “high” in implications of expectation and rewards. In this emphases, addicts tend to feel that they no ability to regulate their behavior, which makes recovering very hard. It might make it almost impossible for the person to