In this test, the individual who drinking alcohol should solve more RAT items than those sober control condition, or they may solve more quickly. Decision making: Rogers et al. (2003) developed a task to study the acute effect of alcohol on decision making. In this task, the participants were divided into two ‘gambles’, participants can choose any gambles to win or lose, and he/she can get the reward or punishment information respectively. The task also contains risk aversion and risk-seeking behavior.…
Laura Key Lindholm English 3 25 January 2016 Alcoholism is an Addiction Over 20 million Americans are addicted to drugs and alcohol, are you one of them? Roughly only 11 percent of the people will receive treatment for their addiction. That’s nearly nothing. Jeannette Walls wrote the book “The Glass Castle” to show readers how her life was really like when she was growing up.…
Under the normativist theory of disease as described by Joseph Margolis, diseases are identified as conditions that are considered departures from social norms or values. The notion of value judgements is used to determine whether such a condition is considered socially normal or abnormal. Margolis claims that it is necessary to use value judgements to determine whether something is a disease or not, and that certain diseases must invoke the use of value judgements in their diagnosis, because not much is understood about their biological etiology. In this paper, I will attempt to support Margolis’ claim about the normativist view of disease by arguing that alcoholism is a disease, in the normativist sense.…
Annotated Bibliography Wechsler, Henry, and Bernice Wuethrich. Dying to Drink: Confronting Binge Drinking on College Campuses. Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale, 2002. Print. Scholarly…
Kulesza, M., Matsuda, M., Ramirez, J. J., Werntz, A. J., Teachman, B. A., & Lindgren, K. P. (2016). Towards a greater understanding of addiction stigma: Intersectionality with race/ethnicity and gender. Drug And Alcohol Dependence, 16985-91. doi:10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.10.020 As noted, the articles spoke on substance use disorders among individuals, connected to any type of informal or formal treatment.…
Richard Webber, from the ABC hit show, Grey’s Anatomy, struggles with alcohol addiction and abuse (Ksir & Hart, 2015) throughout the first six seasons of the show. While Dr. Webber’s alcohol abuse is never outwardly shown throughout the first few seasons, there are mentions of the damage it has caused in the past. These consequences include, troubles at work, family struggles and much more. It is stated that Dr. Webber has a tendency to relapse into his addiction whenever he is faced with intense emotional strife or stress. Introduction Dr. Webber’s alcohol abuse is finally shown on screen within the sixth season of the show.…
Research has indicated that adolescent drinkers show abnormalities in brain functioning. Which is inked to changes in neurocognition over time. This is an important area of research because young adults drink large quantities of alcohol. Moreover, adolescents, especially college students between the ages of 18 and 20, is an important period in life during which key decisions in educational, occupational, and social realms are made. Therefore, valid information on the causes and consequences of alcohol use during this developmental period is needed in order to prevent alcohol-related neurocognitive impairments.…
Introduction Throughout the course of a 24 hour period, an individual will make numerous personal choices that will either positively or negatively affect their life. The decisions to not touch the hot stove, to eat instead of starve, or to enjoy the company of a loved one are all judgements that can be settled in one’s own brain. As a decision to not touch the stove in order to prevent harm to oneself is made, why is it that alcohol, which may also be determined as destructive to the human body, has become such a large part of the lives of many? Alcohol is seen as a way to relax and get away from the difficulties of life but often too much relaxing causes one to forget about the their own health along with the potential health of a future…
Abstract: Binge drinking is a major health problem in the United States resulting in approximately 88,000 deaths per year. One important receptor tyrosine kinase that plays a role in addiction and alcohol dependence is Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK). Specifically, this enzyme is involved in a signaling cascade that relays signals to specific neurons in the nervous system. Experiments analyzing several inhibitors of ALK have found that addiction behaviors, such as cocaine sensitization and binge drinking were reduced after treatment with the inhibitors. Two inhibitors that showed a significant decrease in binge drinking were TAE684 and Alectinib.…
Have you ever thought about how safer the road would be with no drunk drivers? Alcohol-related to crashes that lead to many Americans death from the age 16 to 24. The use of alcohol has a high risk of having problems, for example becoming addicted to alcohol, ending someone’s life including yours, and also ending in a terrible place. Drinking and Driving is dangerous, because not only does it cost your life, but also the lives of innocent people. Becoming an addicted to alcohol, makes you unconscious of your actions.…
There are many current drug issues like heroin, prescription pills, and cocaine but one drug that people do not think about is alcohol. Alcohol is legal but that does not make it any less deadly or addictive. Alcohol has the potential to destroy families and kill people if abused. People do not realize how much alcohol abuse can affect a person 's wellness dimensions. There are seven dimensions of wellness, physical, intellectual, emotional, social, occupational, spiritual, and environmental.…
The goal was to see if impulsivity was directly related to adolescent alcohol use and college drinking habits. The hypothesis for this was that it is directly related. The current study attempts to find a relationship between impulsive behaviors and the consumption of alcohol. The students were told to consume alcoholic beverages and record the rest of the night.…
Male Extraversion is Correlated with Psychostimulant, Alcohol, and Marijuana Use The accuracy of substance abuse behavior is a long-debated issue in personality traits. This study examines whether drug abuse behavior increases or decreases extraversion. Significant evidence suggests that personality traits have been associated with substance abuse behaviors (Grana, Munoz, and Navas, 2009).…
Educate yourself, your family, your friends, or children about the dangers of alcohol abuse. Help them realize that drinking too much could increase the chances of them getting cancer. Substance abuse is a serious problem and it affects not only the individual, but hurts everyone around them as well. Drinking too heavily can cause the individual to develop anemia, which is a disease that will cause their oxygen-carrying red blood cells to be far too low. Anemia has a lot of terrible symptoms, just some including extreme fatigue, fast heartbeat, and chest pains.…
Alcohol All of us one way or another has had a bad experience that involved alcohol. A lot of good times occur with alcohol but bad ones occur too. There are many different forms of alcohol to consume. Some people consume alcohol in the form of beer. Others consume alcohol in the form of wine.…