Physical dependence

Doctors should not be able to prescribe as Adderall as a study aid. There is an erroneous belief that stimulants such as Adderall has no harmful physical side effects. “As more students are introduced to these stimulants and acknowledged perceived benefits, the harmful and additive attributes may go unnoticed compared to the benefits students possibly experience” Varga 294). Millions of American college students are perceived to believe that using Adderall as a study aid will improve…

just what writers do. Many people become addicted to alcohol, an article I found says that “Alcohol is the most commonly used addictive substance in the United States: 17.6 million people, or one in every 12 adults, suffer from alcohol abuse or dependence” (Facts about Alcohol, 2015). She believes that she doesn’t have a problem and shouldn’t be in rehab. She intends for it to make her more relaxed and to help her have fun. She says that the intended consequence for the Vicodin was to relieve…

What evidence is there for the physical dependence of pure awareness and against it? What are the limitations of the physicalist perspective here? What are the limitations of the Buddhist perspective here? There are good reasons for believing the Buddhist view that the fundamental character of consciousness as pure awareness is not dependent on the brain, however, there is other evidence to suggest the opposite; consciousness is indefinitely dependent on the brain. In this essay, I am going…

cocaine, nicotine, alcohol, food, etc., or partaking in activities such as gambling, shopping, internet surfing, sex, exercise, among others. This essay will try to discuss some form of addiction and the effect it has on the individual and/or others. Physical addiction is a type of addiction usually used to describe the biological state whereby there is adaptation…

Drug Court is a successful option for many addict offenders. The Drug Court program focuses on rehabilitation for the root of offenders problems. Unlike regular probation, Drug Court allows the offender to have a more focused experience in the court system. Drug Court requires the participants to test negative on a urinalysis report weekly and also to participate in AA/NA groups or other recovery self-help groups. Through Drug Court, offenders are treated with the expectation of treatment being…

Memoirs of an Addicted Brain is an autobiographical novel that follows the stages of Mark Lewis’s life as an addict. Lewis begins the novel from when he was a young boy exploring the effects alcohol had on his behavior, then a young student experimenting with psychoactive drugs in San Francisco, becoming a heroin addict, and finally overcoming his extreme opiate addiction and becoming a respectable neuroscientist. His journey from the age of fifteen to thirty involves taking every drug he could…

Behavior in THE FIGHTER In the multidimensional approach, there are three basic elements that impact a person’s behavior, which are the person, environment, and time dimensions. Within each of the basic elements exists multiple dimensions, such as physical environment, biological, event time, and communities (Hutchsion, p. 10, 2012). The multidimensional approach can be used to analyze an individual in a movie by how certain factors can affect a person’s behavior. For this assignment, Dicky from…

Human being and his tendencies for alcohol and drug consumption is a matter of curiosity since the beginning of civilizations. The cultural and societal aspects of intoxication are worth analysis rather than the individualistic approach to it. As, there arises a question whether, the craving for intoxication is a natural instinct within man or if it is incorporated in him by an external agency. Every civilization and every religion has their own approach to intoxication and puts forth a…

B. Possible Defences Intoxication Defence of intoxication refers to the defendant being “under the influence of alcohol, drugs or other substances that they did not know what they were doing or the full extent of their actions”. Despite the fact that the drugs were self induced, it was taken under the pressure of the co-offenders. At the time of the incident, Akon was under the influence of ice as an inexperienced user. His defence argued that there was no way that he, as a second time user…

The article “Embraced by the Needle,” written by Gabor Maté, is about the reasoning behind drug addictions. In this article, Maté describes how drug addictions can result from various situations and backgrounds. One thing that is common between all addictions is that they “always originate in unhappiness, even if hidden” (Maté, 2016, pp. 506). The article describes how addictions can derive from neglect during childhood; or, it could develop from a loving home with the burden of stress and…