Sexual addiction

closely with victims of crime and advocated to forge public policy agendas dedicated to victims’ rights and public protection. In October of 2016, President Obama signed into law the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights Act. This measure focuses on collecting and preserving rape kits in a medical examination after a suspected sexual assault. As of 2014, “more than 100,000 rape kits have often languished for years in police warehouses and crime labs, untested due to lack of funding and, some argue…

can lead to drinking copious amounts. Alcohol abuse can also occur through seeing alcohol drunk by close relatives or friends regularly. Other causes of alcohol abuse include mental issues, peer pressure, low self-esteem, a stressful lifestyle and sexual or physical abuse. It must be noted that becoming an alcoholic doesn’t happen overnight, it is a long process that builds up overtime. 3.1 Symptoms of alcohol abuse The symptoms of a drinking problem are often first noticed by family…

Is there such a thing as sex addiction? I believe you can become addicted to anything; whether that be a drug, sex, food, a person an object. There are two known forms of addiction. One would be known as involuntary and the others would be deemed voluntary. An addiction starts off voluntary but quickly becomes involuntary as it takes over your life. Now, addiction overall is a need that is physical or psychological habit that your body adapts to and gradually requires more of that need to…

public place you will notice how many people are glued to their cell phones or tablets not paying any attention to anything going on around them. Social media creates lasting problems for teenagers in the U.S. They do not realize that they have an addiction, are possibly developing sleep disturbances and mental health problems, that social media is preventing them from making and maintaining real life…

in the United States today. Throughout this paper, the team will outline the treatment modalities that can be used during treatment and the demographics of the population abusing and going through treatment. Treatment is necessary to beat this addiction and to encourage abusers to enter rehabilitation center one must understand what can be done and what steps need to be taken. Finally, this paper shows what happens when the users come out of rehab, what steps they need to take to stay sober,…

fails, but when I encouraged her in other areas of her life like work and school and continuously praised her for her good behavior she seemed to back away from her substance of choice, I don’t know if this was due to her working more (replacing one addiction with another) or if it was my praising her for her hard work I don’t know if I will ever know. My new insights and awareness and on this topic is that the army has a higher rate of substance abuse than any other service and it would be…

With social media, cyber bullying can be a serious thing, people have committed suicide because they were being “trolled” so much and their addiction would not let them get off of social media. . “Ten studies examined the link between social media victimization and depression, and all of them found a connection,” (“Social Media Cyber Bullying Linked to Teen Depression,” 1). The creation of screenshots…

The people who I know in long-term recovery have no desire to consume cocktails and wine at this point in their lives; they have acceptance and aren’t living in denial any longer. Sure, it’s possible for relapse to happen even after ten years of recovery, especially if there is a major structure change in an individual’s life; however, they know what the problem, the solution, and the program of action is by that point in their recovery. I can’t help but wonder if Sally is the creation of a…

Anti-depressants are some of the most used medications used by mankind today, surpassed only by ADHD medication. However, despite the overwhelming use most users don’t know the side effects of medication. It is important for anyone suffering from depression to consider both the good and the bad effects that anti-depressants will give you. And along with people not knowing the effects, there are many who argue against using said drugs, even going as far as to question the validity of the doctors…

Being addicted to the consumption of alcohol liquor is known as alcoholism. Alcoholism is classified as both a mental and physical disease. Abusing the substance is self-determinant at first but over time becomes a habit, causing the person to lose control of how much to consume, thus becoming an alcoholic. Even though the cause of alcoholism is still unknown, it is known that dependency happens when you drink so much that chemical changes in the brain occur. These chemical changes in the brain…