Cellphone Addiction Essay

What have you been taught about race, ethnicity, class, gender, & sexuality? This question is deeper and more complex than it appears, I have been taught many things about each of these topics, most of all how each category describes a person. We all learn that all people are equal, or should be treated equally I learned that through words. Through actions, I learned that is not true. Through experience I learned that a persons race alone is supposed to tell something about them, about…

Alcohol Addiction The Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution established the national prohibition of alcohol in January 1920, but the Twenty-first Amendment entirely repealed the Eighteenth when it was ratified less than 14 years later. While there are still a handful of dry communities in various parts of the country today, alcohol largely remains a part of regular life for many Americans. According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), a 2012…

groundwork that dopamine is a pivotal player in addiction. She is Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Her groundbreaking work led to our understanding that addiction is strongly influenced by the release of dopamine in the brain and spinal cord. This “disease model” of addiction is not universally accepted (http://bit.ly/1K3AvnM). However, as we learn more about the science of addiction, the disease model takes a firmer hold as the…

Addiction Is a Disease The phenomenon of addiction provides various views and beliefs of on how it affects people’s lives. Addiction, in many aspects, may add spice to one’s life, but it can also be compared to a disease that disintegrates one’s life. This notion of addiction as a disease encourages the community to discover a useful resolution to somehow stop this widespread issue. Beneficially, the 12-step program was established in 1930’s. The 12-step program first started with the Alcoholic…

Assignment #2 List the substance criteria that you observe from the case study. Explain, after each criterion, a rationale for where in the case study you saw this being met. 1. Substance is often taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than was intended. In this case study, the client named Matthew has been drinking for over 20 years since he attended high school. Matthew described the usage rate as beginning with 3-5 beers an evening, five days a week. That is already at 15-25 beers…

harsher end of it…addiction and death. There are many good preventive drug abuse programs that target the early years. Drug addiction treatments and counseling are available for the asking, but few are. Our children, a precious resource, the future of our country, deserve to have every opportunity to overcome societal obstacles. We need every program available to combat drug use, abuse, and addiction. Every man, woman, and child that want to help combat drug use and addiction need to make…

know how to relieve that stress in a positive manner. They do not know where to turn to, they think no one understands or is there for them – I can attest to this first hand – and they sometimes just hit rock bottom. Furthermore, a new addiction is born – drug addiction. There are so many high school and college-aged students that turn to drugs as a coping mechanism because they feel as if there is nothing else to remove the stress that they are enduring. According to the National Institute on…

The addiction rate would have dropped and overdose deaths decreasing, that is less for law enforcement to worry about. Drug arrests over the past 10 years have been 80% possession and 20% sale. The people previously imprisoned for possession would be released…

prosecutors alike to go after low level drug offenders and has done very little to curb addiction and stop drug use (73). Consequently, any attempt to decrease America’s prison population and fight mass incarceration will have to drastically change the way in which substance abuse is addressed by the government. As the Director of National Drug Control Policy, Michael Botticelli says, the fight against drug addiction “[needs] to be focused on increasing prevention, treatment, [and] supporting…

First Supposition: The War on Drugs as an Abject Failure The first supposition that I have chosen to discuss is about the War on Drugs as an abject failure. I chose this supposition because I definitely agree with this statement. I believe that the War on Drugs has failed at their efforts of trying to reduce and eliminate the use of drug and has overall failed at improving society. As a result of the War on Drugs, I believe that it increased racial profiling and the incarceration of African…