Addiction Essay

Addiction is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological, psychological, social and spiritual manifestations. This is reflected in an individual pathologically pursuing reward and/or relief by substance use and other behaviors (Definition of Addiction). My family has had their fair share of being addicted to alcohol. To this day, my grandfather talks about how he overcame an alcoholic…

Heroin was once found in poor neighborhoods in big cities, now has spread into wealthy suburbs outside of cities, and even into small towns. “Issue Overview: Heroin Addiction by: Lauren Etter and “Drug overdose deaths cause U.S. life expectancy to drop for 2nd year,” by Associated Press talks about the effects that Heroin has on society and how it started as something small and has been becoming into something that is in the News every night due to the many overdoses that have happened around…

Cocaine is defined as a “crystalline alkaloid, obtained from coca leaves, used as a local anesthetic and also widely used as an illicit drug for its stimulant and euphorigenic properties,” this is the definition of cocaine, according to Dictionary.com. Cocaine comes in two forms, a powdered or a rock crystal form which it’s called crack to differentiate amongst them. When you want to obtain more knowledge of this drug through online sources, its basic information found to vary from websites to…

The criminalization of addiction to drugs and alcohol has impacted society on various levels. Rather than treating addiction as a disease of the brain it is treated as a moral ineptitude that deserves punishment. It is estimated that the United States government spends $51 million a year on drug related arrests and imprisonment (Sledge, 2013). A paradigm shift on how society views addiction and treatment is needed to truly help those suffering from this disease. I would like to consider what…

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”. Heyman’s article concludes his beliefs on how addiction is not a disease. He writes about his opinion on why he believes such, and sometimes backs up his claims. Miller believes that addiction is in fact a mental disorder. The article, “Addiction Is a Brain Disease”, is by…

it is not surprising that video game addiction runs rampant throughout children and even some adults. From wanting to play it as much as possible to playing it all the time, there is no easy way around it. Though it is not like a drug addiction, it can have major health, financial, and general life risks. This is why prevention should be important; if it is not stopped now, it will only get worse when more games are created in the future. Video game addiction should always be taken seriously…

Warning Signs There are multitudes of warning signs that others can see to tell if an individual has a gaming addiction. There are features of video game addiction that can be in the criteria for diagnosing the addiction. Principles of Addiction and King, Delfabbro, and Griffiths (2013) states that there are 6 features that are criteria include: Salience, Mood modification, tolerance, withdrawal, relapse, and harm. Salience comes around when playing video games is all the person can think about,…

The Addictions & Mental Health Counsellor (AMH) works within a multi-disciplinary team who provides assessment, referral, clinical counselling, and prevention to individuals and family members affected by mental health and substance use issues. Family members of chemically addicted individuals want to know not only what addiction is, why their loved one became addicted and what part if any did they play. There is no easy explanation to these questions, as every addiction although it may be…

have learned about various substances, group dynamics, body language, addiction challenges as well as effects of the addiction among other things that has changed my perspective of addiction vastly. Initially I did not want to take any classes about drugs and alcohol because all that I was thinking about with the treatment and not much of the aspects that led to the abuse. Treatment issues and theory in alcohol and drug addiction turned out to be my favorite class, and has inclined me to take…

Formerly, I believed people with addictions were worthless and not worth helping, until addiction happened in my family. When my cousin became an alcoholic I realized anyone could become an addict. I also began to understand how cruelly addicts are treated and that they need help instead of being pushed out of our society. It was not until someone close to me developed an addiction that I truly realized that addiction can happen to anyone, even good people, and that addicts needed to be treated…