Sexual addiction

that he needs all the help he can get; so he’s going to rehab because he’s desperate for a change, and needs guidance as soon as possible, before he ends up worse than he is and before it’s too late. Drug addiction is a chronic illness that needs a long span of time to recuperate. Drug addiction changes many things in a person. It changes the way you think, your brain in…

Drug addiction is a chronic disease characterized by compulsive, or uncontrollable, drug seeking and use despite harmful consequences and changes in the brain (DrugFacts). In other words, drug abuse is an extreme desire to obtain, and use, increasing amounts of…

individuals struggling on both sides of a drug addiction. Sonny is a jazz musician from Harlem, New York who gets addicted to Heroin, and is arrested for selling drugs. The other character, the one that is affected by Sonny’s addiction, is the narrator, also known as Sonny’s brother. Even though drugs are a central part of the story, it’s not only about Sonny’s struggle to reconnect with his family, but his family trying to overcome Sonny’s addiction as well. Throughout the story, there is an…

difficulties, including exposure to alcohol and drugs. Although experimenting with alcohol and drugs during adolescence is common, it may also lead to dependency and addiction (Stagman, Schwarz & Powers, 2011). For this reason, it is important to treat adolescent drug use and dependency at an early stage to prevent further addiction and dependency issues into adulthood. Currently, there are several different treatment options for addressing adolescent substance use including individual therapy…

The term addiction originates from the Latin words for both “bound to” and “enslaved by”; a fitting ideology for those experiencing the symptoms of addiction personally or through a loved one. A number of things, ranging from food, sex, gambling, alcohol, and drugs, can give rise to addiction. Addiction is often times categorized by the excessive and repeated use of something. But addictive substances that give rise to addiction are characterized by two principles: reinforcing stimuli and…

people carry addictions as if it were a secret. They wouldn’t look like your typical drug addict. They were clean, took care of their kids, and lived life as if it were normal. That’s what Beth’s story was like. She was was your typical mom with beautiful children and a normal life. You never would’ve known she had an addiction. Beth started using drugs at a young age. She was between the age of 16 and 17, it started out as normal teenage experimentation. But painkillers became an addiction…

Aversive taste treatments are treatments that are given to the addicted individual to try to simulate a bad experience with the substance. It works by creating a unwanted or undesirable feeling when the person begins to start a unneeded behavior such as drinking alcohol. One method is Nausea Aversion Therapy Treatment which gives the alcoholic a case of extreme nausea when drinking alcohol though some of it is medically induced which is overt sanitization which relies on a drug that has been…

With this model, it stands firm in believing that the therapeutic goal is to completely expunge addiction from one’s life and the person must never use that substance again. The harm-reduction simply does not see addiction solely as a disease. Under this model, it is assumed that addiction is rather a pattern of behaviors proposed by a combination of socio-cultural and psychological processes. It asserts that with psychological interventions…

in Russia as two thirds of those with HIV caught it through intravenous drug use and the remaining caught it through sexual relations with drug users (Nutt, p. 274). As well, many cities refuse to give treatment for AIDS and HIV if they are drug users (Nutt, p. 274), or will only treat them for one thing forcing them to choose between treating their HIV problem or their addiction problem (Nutt, p.…

Carla Danielson and her colleagues, discuss how maltreatment as a child affects drug usage later on. To begin with, the researchers identify the different types of maltreatment someone could experience. They studied child sexual assault, child physical assault and addiction-related symptoms within a small sample of adolescents who met particular criteria. Based on the report, about 60% actually admitted to having undergone some type of maltreatment, which resulted in varying levels of drug…