Alcohol dependence

Article Summary The article, “Drug Abuse and Addiction” by Gregory Collins, Mark McAllister, and Kamala Audry shows the difference between substance abuse and substance addiction by separating the different characteristics that are apparent in abuse and addiction. Substance abuse is described by the authors as, “showing recurrent use resulting in a decline of the ability to produce everyday actions, as well as intervention with the law” (Collins, McAllister, & Adury, 2010). To be categorized as…

In the following two studies, Vrij and Mann (2001) and Mann, Vrij, and Bull (2004), respectively, researched police officers abilities to detect deception in real-life, high-stakes scenarios. They also looked at the behavioural cues which were used to come to these conclusions. In the first study by Vrij and Mann (2001), participants were comprised of 52 police officers in the Netherlands, 28 male and 24 female. The officers had an average age of 30, around 9 years of service, and rated…

There are some behavioral addictions that are positive in the way that they can improve a person’s quality of life. Examples would be participating in an exercise routine habitually or brushing teeth every day. Although, majority of behavioral addictions are negative. As stated in the textbook, behavior addictions are often harmful and self-defeating. Individuals who have a behavioral addiction become consumed for many reasons. These behaviors could stem from trouble at home, not feeling…

Based on student responses from the questionnaire, students are spending significant amounts of time participating in extracurricular activities. Students are spending more time participating in arts, which includes band, orchestra, and fine arts and sports offered at middle school level like football, basketball, track and field, and swim. A substantial amount of students spent zero hours participating in extracurricular activities, seen in Figures 3 and 4. Figures 3 and 4 also demonstrate…

Nobody wakes up one morning and decides that today is the day they will try and get addicted to drugs or alcohol. There usually is a lot of underlying circumstance such as abuse, learned behavior, coping, or peer pressure to name a few. The problem is not in experimenting with a substance one time, it is when that experimentation leads to an addiction that overtakes a person’s life and starts to ruin it. The good news is there is help available, the addicted just has to want to get the help they…

Explore Correlation and Regression Using the explore function within SPSS gives a clearer view of how the data is represented. The explore function helps to assess the variables within the investigation by visually identifying various aspects of the data, therefor revealing the true nature of the data (Field, 2013). For example, the data in the Chamorro-Premuzic.sav file can be evaluated in a number of ways, for example analyzing the data based on the gender grouping allow one to visualize the…

Discussion This longitudinal study assessed the extent to which academic achievement and engagement were predicted from the academic achievement and engagement of friends and network members. Concurrent Relations As expected, adolescent’s academic achievement was highly correlated with that of their friends and network members. This is consistent with findings from U.S. studies. Ryan (2001) found that students’ academic levels were similar to group’s academic levels with the correlations…

Righteous Dopefiend addresses the issue of homelessness among the community of drug addicts in San Francisco, California. Being homeless is one of the many issues that encompass the reality of these dopefiend’s daily lives. Anthropologists Bourgois and Schonberg articulate a better understanding for the readers to observe the lives of those who live on the streets and have an uncontrollable drug addiction. “Moral economy” as described in this book is a means of everyday survival—this gift…

Why are people homeless in ‘The Lucky Country’? Discuss the factors that can contribute to youth homelessness in Australia. A shameful question we ask of ourselves is ‘Why are people homeless in our ‘lucky’ country’? People assume homeless people are only homeless because they are substance abusers, for many that is not the case. In fact there are a staggering number of other factors that can cause people to leave their homes. Points such as the factors, the age of those that are on the streets…

reading about how Aristotle relates “slackness” to people, it makes me feel as if he has a good point, but he is also being slightly judgmental. It seems to me like Aristotle is saying, whatever a person chooses to indulge in, whether it is drugs or alcohol, it is what the person is or will soon become… either an alcoholic or a drug addict. It’s a natural instinct for people to judge another individual if they display the same actions repeatedly, and if someone chooses to drink heavily everyday…