Sexual addiction

Behavioral addiction is a psychological disorder in which an individual fails to resist an impulse, drive, or temptation to perform an act that can cause harm to the person or others. It is characterized by a repeated pattern of behavior (Grant, 2011). These behaviors may include compulsive buying, pathologic skin picking, sexual addiction (non-paraphilic hyper sexuality), excessive tanning, computer/video game playing, and internet addiction, among many others (Grant, 2011). Feelings of…

the Federal Government still considers marijuana as the number one illegal drug. Marijuana should not be legalized for these reasons: it can link to crime, gateway to addiction, and leads to health problems. First, marijuana should not be legalized because it is most often linked to crime. Crimes could be in any form such as sexual assault, robbery or theft, and reckless driving. Marijuana impairs our brain, particularly in decision making, motor coordination, and reaction time. For example,…

One topic that always seems to catch my eye is addiction. According to American Society of Addiction Medicine, Addiction is characterized by inability to consistently abstain, impairment in behavioral control,Addiction craving, diminished recognition of significant problems with one’s behaviors and interpersonal relationships, and a dysfunctional emotional response. Typically, people believe that drug addiction is a choice and that anyone who does it is lacking willpower and is just a typical…

counseling women suffering from addictions? Some considerations to make when counseling women suffering from addiction, are that they are most likely to suffer from affective disorders such as depression and anxiety. Women often begin abusing substances following a traumatic event. Another considerations to make is that alcoholic women are five times more likely to attempt suicide than are nonalcoholic women. Also women are more likely than men to experience sexual dysfunction, bulimia, and low…

Summary: Examining the Relationship of Substance Use and Sexual Orientation (Lanfear, Akins, & Mosher, 2013) This study assessed the causes and correlates of substance abuse by self-reported sexual minorities, by utilizing statistics derived from a random sample of 6,713 participants of the Washington State Needs Assessment Household Survey (WANAHS). This assessment was intended to evaluate the frequency of substance use and the need for substance abuse treatment in the general population.…

yourself or someone else to stop the urge to view pornography? It 's a sensitive and personal topic, and it 's also one that should not have started as an issue at all. The issue has been ineradicable since the fall in Bible times. If someone has an addiction to pornography, their focus in life is wrecked and also become passive and careless. Psychologists, therapists, and biologists study these issues. Research suggests that pornography is addictive because it is like a drug, considerably the…

Addiction has swept across America and has authority over the choices and actions of twenty million lives in America; that is “one out of every six American young adults” (Statistics on Drug Addiction). Addiction initiates mental cravings that are soothed using recreational drugs, alcohol, and prescribed medications from doctors. This disease compensates for trauma a person endured as a child, teenager, or adult. A person can be influenced or pressured to try substances through friends, or even…

Mate is about people with addiction caused by not only taking the drug but also the feeling of abandonment or neglect. Gabor Mate is a doctor who was working as a staff physician at the Portland Hotel and taking care of patients who suffer from drug addiction and mental illness. Mate has also his personal experiences about people who have issues with drug abuse. Mate estimated from his experience with his clients and studies that there are 3,000 to 5,000 people with addictions in Vancouver’s…

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 depression. Most women and some males in Canada’s addiction capital, the…

Drug Addiction and Rehabilitation: The Effects it has on the Family and the Community. A question many of us ask that are familiar with drug addiction is, “Can a person addicted to drugs ever really be rehabilitated, or do they all end up going back to their old lifestyles, and if so why?” Well, in this research paper, I am going to try to help you find an answer for this question, or at least give you enough information to be able to state your opinion on the question. In This paper I will…