Sexual addiction

This assignment will consist of a vignette comparing the case studies of two young girls, Susie,6 and Alice, 8. Both girls come from homes where their Mother’s abuse legal substances (cigarettes and alcohol). A study which looked at the effects of parental substance abuse on children found that nearly a third of the participants had grown up to have a serious drug problem (Bancroft et al, 2004). The assignment will focus on how parental substance abuse has effected the girls development and…

According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, tobacco is any plant of the genus Nicotiana; especially: an annual South American herb (N. tabacum) cultivated for its leaves. With the leaves from the tobacco which was cultivated, it is then used to process for the use of smoking, chewing or as snuff. The breathing of tobacco smoke can be harmful and of the more than 7,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke, at least 250 are known to be harmful and also having caner causing agents. A leading cause of…

Maybe people engage in some form of technology daily, whether it be cell phones, laptop, music players, television, etc. It is slowly consuming everyday life and turning everything into a digital era. Technology has been a large influential factor in society and affects people both negatively and positively. In the essay, “Isolated Community: Hidden Dangers of MMORPGs,” written by Rachel Schofield, the author explains that within technology and digital communities, we are unaware of what is…

"Caffeine is the most widely used psychoactive substance in the world"(Davidson and Alic 1). Most people drink caffeine through the day to stay alert or remain awake. Caffeine affects people in many different ways; some people like to drink a lot of caffeine whether it be in coffee, pop or some other drink. Drinking these drinks is not the only way to consume caffeine. Caffeine can be consumed in a powder form in extreme cases. When drinking caffeine, it can cause many different effects on the…

Pneumonia is quite the serious illness, at least, it can be. As such, it's prudent for everyone to know about the disease as much as they can. Here are more facts about pneumonia that everyone should know. Number Eight: Speech-Language Pathologists Are Innaccurate Speech-language pathologists who evaluate clients with the disease fail to identify nearly half of patients who have the illness. This is due to something known as silent symptoms. Number Seven: Aspirated Substances of Pneumonia…

mental health and addiction. It has been discussed that vaping is harmless. Vapes contain water vapor, flavoring and nicotine. On our physical health, nicotine causes cardiovascular problems, low immune response and respiratory diseases that may be due to acetaldehyde and diacetyl in e-cigarettes. In terms of mental health, nicotine causes cognitive and behavioral impairment in adolescence. Nicotine causes addiction, which becomes a door to exploring other drugs or a new form of addiction.…

On March 28, 2016 I attended my first AA Meeting. Not really knowing what to expect, I found that everyone was nice and very welcoming. There were people from all walks of life, from adolescence to geriatrics. Although they were all very different, they all shared a commonality, to maintain sobriety. There were no membership fees or strict guidelines to join, no judgement being placed, there was only one simple rule, to have a desire to stop drinking. The meeting began with a reading from the…

is no definite or single circumstance that will deliver change. Some individuals have a higher rock bottom than others and they do not need to exhaust very much before they conclude that they have had enough. While another will clench onto their addiction until it sabotages everything worthy in their life. In order for addicts to finally get the motivation to change, it is typically necessary for them to hit rock bottom. The fuel that ignites a change process, in one suffering with a…

give their lives meaning”. ("Mental Health foundation," SFBT is an approach that focuses on how clients change, rather than one which focuses on diagnosing and treating problems. For Tonya, she is recovering from a substance addiction, child and adult abuse, AIDS, and has addiction to sex, and mental health problems. With the techniques of the recovery and solution focused brief therapy they both focus on the present or on the future in…

Life was hard for the men at sea as well as for the women back home, because of the distances set upon them due to the voyages that lasted two to three years, the men were out at sea. Many young men as young as fourteen years old, from Nantucket, idolized the Essex and dreamed of becoming one of the whale hunters aboard the vessels.Although the Essex might not look like much being stripped from her rigging and all, many saw the vessel as opportunity, especially Thomas Nickerson who was eager…