CHEM 1660 BETTER LIVING THROUGH CHEMISTRY Part III Addiction Dr. Susan Y. LIANG Email: ytliang@hkbu.edu.hk Office: FSC 702B Opium – Catholicon or Toxin • Evidence suggests that more than 5‚000 years ago the properties of opium were known in the Euphrates River (幼发拉底河) delta. • Around 330 B. C.‚ Alexander the Great took opium to Persia and India‚ from where cultivation slowly spread eastward and reached China in about the 7th century (唐朝). 13th century‚ India The opium poppy
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Addiction We are going to talk about addiction and what it means. There are a couple text book definitions to what this means. Addiction in one form or another is common to most people. Addiction in the dictionary says‚ “The quality or state of being addicted.” With that being the case‚ look at what addicted means. Addicted also means to devote or surrender to something habitually or obsessively. Most of the time we hear this word is because we associate it with drugs. When most people think of
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these understandings on addiction to social care practice. The word “addict” originates from Roman law where an individual is compelled to his or her creditor place of payment of debt (Ross et al‚ 2010). As Dunnington states that addiction is defined a number of different ways. Addiction is defined as a “brain disease” personifies by “compulsive use of drugs” this definition comes from the Institute of Medicine (2011). The National Institute on Drug Abuse defines addiction as a “chronic‚ relapsing
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people who would say addiction is not a disease but a choice. Those people are looking at it in an object manner without even scrapping the surface of the true issue. Daniel Akst‚ a writer from New York’s Hudson Valley‚ wrote that‚ “Addiction is voluntary rather than compulsory” (Akst). While indeed the first act of engaging in drug use is voluntary the spiraling downward effect is caused by addiction taking over a person’s brain. Mr. Netherton implies in this statement‚ "Addiction is a crutch word that
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Effective Treatment for Drug Addiction Introduction “Every year‚ hundreds of thousands of Americans undergo treatment for substance use disorder‚ also called addiction” (Hart & Ksir‚ 2013‚ p. 409). Drug addiction is a complex brain disease because the abuse of drugs leads to changes in the structure and function of the brain. It is a condition characterized by an overwhelming and uncontrollable desire or craving to continue taking a drug to which one has become habituated through repeated consumption
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thousands of drug addiction centers for treatment. The Financial Question If you have already rejected the idea that drug addiction centers are the answer for you because the cost of their treatment puts them beyond your financial reach‚ it’s time to get really honest with yourself. How much are you currently spending on alcohol or your drugs of choice? If you don’t beat you habit‚ you will continue to spend that much‚ or more‚ until you die. With treatment from one of the drug addiction
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This paper will discuss how my sisters’ drug addiction has been an informal learning experience for me and how my life has been effected trying to help her with this addiction. I will discuss how her experience with drugs occurred through classical conditioning by‚ identifying the unconditioned stimulus‚ unconditioned response‚ conditioned stimulus‚ and the conditioned response. I will also explain how her experience occurred through operant conditioning by describing the behavior‚ the consequences
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that their health is suffering due to their addiction to exercising and is in need of medical attention‚ right? Well this battle‚ as well as others‚ is one that many individuals are faced with in their day to day lives and without seeking medical attention their addiction will continue to thrive. Addiction is a disease that should be medically treated not a habit that is chastised due to personal choices.
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CHAPTER 6: EVALUATION-ESSAY 5-ROUGH DRAFT RECOVERY FROM DRUG ADDICTION: PROCESS VS. EVENT Picking up the broken pieces of a life filled with insanity and drug abuse‚ is no overnight task. I’m not just talking of the heroin addict in the 1960s.Recovery from addiction takes constant specialized care. Through intensive work‚ the addiction can be arrested. The process starts with the person admitting they have a problem. This is the first step to begin to recover. Most importantly‚
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realistic way is the drug abuse and violence aspect in the novel‚ Addiction is a very common problem for teenagers today‚ and in this novel written by Ellen Hopkins she tells us the story of a young girl called Kristina Snow spoken in a mother’s perspective of being faced with a young adolescents who got lost in the world of drugs and eventually ended up losing herself.This issue is presented in a realistic way because many young adolescents have been surrounded or been involved with drugs and violence
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