kids about. Offer to be the designated driver which means that their kids can ask their friends if they want them to be the designated driver. “They can find something better to do (National Institute on Drug Abuse for Teens‚ 17)”. Some teens might say try to get there friends to do drugs to look cool. They might say something like come do this with us if you do it then you will look cool. If schools conducted random
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Addiction is a brain disease that is a compulsive engagement in a rewarding stimuli‚ despite adverse consequences. There are many stages that lead addiction such as the pleasure principle‚ development of tolerance‚ and compulsion (Rodgers‚ 1994). The brains pleasure principles registers all pleasures the same way‚ from psychoactive drug‚ a monetary reward‚ a sexual encounter‚ or a satisfying meal. In the brain‚ pleasure releases a neurotransmitter called dopamine. Dopamine is released into the nucleus
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drug offenders to clinical settings instead of jail. First of all‚ there is evidence that prison increases addiction. This might be because prisoners are in contact with drug-using peers. These peers could introduce one to new types of addictive substances‚ for example‚
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personality down to action of genes Antisocial personality and addiction • Rounsaville et al and Slutsky et al – found a strong link between alcoholism and antisocial personality disorder and ADD. o Important for clinicians to be aware that substance addiction frequently coexists with other mental disorders and this has implication for successful treatment. o Personality represents an individual difference. Personality is likely to be product of both nature and nurture interacting. • Lawton
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The documentary Dope Sick Love‚ follows around two drug-addicted couples in the streets of New York City. Couples Tracey & Matt and Michelle & Sebastian are prime examples of what it is like to live with the unescapable harm of addiction. As discussed in class‚ addiction is defined as a continued‚ compulsive use that gives temporary relief of please‚ in spite of the awareness of negative consequences. This definition perfectly explains the entire synopsis of the documentary. Both couples understand
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Psychological characteristics are harder to define because the person addicted is the one who knows the real struggle. Anyone is susceptible to drugs and becoming addicted. The main people involved in drug addiction is just the individual indulging in the substance and the person who supplies the one partaking in the matter. The individual involving his/herself with drugs has no thought or speculation as to who they can affect. Once involved‚ they affect their families‚ friends‚ and their community. It may
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On the other hand‚ imagine how taken aback people are to find themselves dependent on chemical substances when there were no apparent clues suggesting they might be susceptible to active addiction. This sometimes happens when a person is prescribed pain pills after surgery or for pain management or a person decides to experiment with heroin‚ and the obsessions/compulsions of addiction raise their monstrous heads without warning. There is no pre-emptive strategy for this. So‚ sometimes people
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few have been informed with the ongoing drug war. The drug abuse that this nation has been through has grown exponential in the past decade. The nation is going down a never-ending hill. The outcome of this war could not be stopped. As few have accepted‚ the drug abuse cannot be contained. Just as Gary Mendell said “There is no single way to end the addiction crisis that has ravaged so many communities”‚ there is no containing the drug abuse to single town or community.(Katel) Due to the on growing
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over diagnosis of conditions like depression‚ ADHD and bipolar etc. Also this documentary toughed upon the over prescribing of drugs and medication which tends to lead to addiction. Overall this documentary explored the issue of prescription drug abuse and also addiction. The documentary also revealed multiple reasons behind the pharmaceutical industry’s big influence on medication and drugs. What I seen after watching this documentary was how it exposed how the FDA‚ physicians and other contributors
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Next‚ I wish to discuss the difference between drug addiction and drug abuse and whether they are both similar or completely separate from each other. If they are similar what are the characteristics of drug abuse and drug addiction. Also what are the physical effects of drug addiction and what are the psychical effects of drug abuse ‚ and also if any; what are the psychological effects that might accompany both the abuse of drugs and the addiction to drugs. This of course will all be dependent
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