ALCOHOL REHABILITATION Due to the fact that alcohol is a psychoactive substance‚ it is incredibly easy to become addicted to these adult spirits. The state of this addiction is called alcoholism‚ and has an intense impact on your central nervous system. No matter how many people attempt to minimize the reality of alcoholism‚ we at (Location Name)‚ understand the traumatic and devastating consequences of short-term‚ as well as long-term alcohol abuse‚ and are here to help you in your journey to a
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The three most common reasons addicts enter treatment are: 1. A sincere desire to recover. 2. Coercion. 3. Manipulation. A SINCERE DESIRE TO RECOVER Addicts may come to appreciate that it’s time for a change. An old joke of AA is that addicts who drink and drive may make a change after a DUI—they stop driving but continue to drink! The changes we are looking for are to stop using drugs! An addict may make a change when he or she hits rock bottom‚ such as losing a job‚ losing an important relationship
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Pathologically‚ addiction is characterized by the pursuit of reward or relief substances in a compulsive‚ uncontrolled‚ and debilitating fashion. This behavior occurs as a result of alterations in the mesolimbic pathway of the brain‚ implicated in reward‚ motivation‚ and memory. More specifically‚ the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and nucleus accumbens are two regions that directly mediate addiction. The VTA‚ activated by addictive substances‚ is the site of dopaminergic neurons that project onto
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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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When a person enters drug rehab or an addiction treatment facility and is diagnosed with a drug addiction and eating disorder‚ the question arises which addiction developed first and how do you treat two addictions? First‚ let us define an eating disorder as the quality of one’s thinking as it relates to food and weight and not how much someone weighs. Then‚ we may take a look at various behaviors and address other criteria. In most cases‚ one’s thinking regarding food and weight became distorted
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The Cognitive Association Theory discusses drug addiction through others‚ individuals value‚ attitudes‚ and motives for criminal behavior. The addiction of the drug is used by withdrawal of distress‚ but without the absence of withdrawal‚ then one does not become addicted. The addiction is quick and permanent‚ especially if one uses other drugs. Some have solid concrete evidence support for this theory. Thio‚ Taylor‚ and Schwartz‚ state‚ “among patients who have been given morphine to kill their
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Substance abuse and substance dependency are more alike than they are different because they both involve the overindulgence in illicit drugs or alcohol. Substance abuse seems to be the stage before dependency being that one has to excessively use the drug in order to become dependent. Once a person becomes dependent on an illicit substance they are prone to becoming functioning addicts where the abuse is ongoing. The only real difference between the two is that substance dependency allows one to
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Drugs assignment Q1 Introduction Drug and alcohol use among under the legal age is lessening more and more by the years. Though it is still a large problem‚ not to the extent of how many are using‚ but how often they use and what effect it has around them. Everyone has access to prescription drugs‚ it is easy to buy and can be extremely dangerous to mess with. Even if the percentage is low‚ it still has a large effect on the people around them. My outlook on the situation is that there may
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Per Stephen Morse addictions can be broken down into two models. The medical model and the moral model‚ or moral failure. In general‚ the medical model of addiction puts forth that the cause of addiction has a biological‚ neurological‚ genetic or environmental cause‚ and that the resulting behaviors are a symptom of the disease‚ while the moral model ascribes that those behaviors are due to a moral failure. “Although no uncontroversial definition of addiction exists and “addiction” and “addict”
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Russell Brand views addiction as a disease and he is well qualified to think so. He struggled with addiction. For 11 years he used heroine‚ cocaine‚ alcohol‚ and many other drugs. In 2002 he went to a rehabilitation center to get clean for 12 weeks. He believes drug addiction is an illness as a disease. And from what I understand he has taken the belief that you can be genetically predetermined to be addicted to something. And when you finally do drugs‚ you cannot get enough. He is able to own up
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