Category: Drug Addiction

Addiction is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory, and related circuitry (Csiernik, R. 2016). Addiction is like a trap you go there to escape from your problems or harmful effect in your life. We treat addicts differently because of their dependency. It is like a spider web, likes like weak, soft, and…

Addiction is the feeling of wanting more and more of something to satisfy yourself. It is when one cannot control themselves from doing something repetitively. Drug addiction for example is a issue that is widespread in our world, it has a huge impact on the mind, and tends to influence a persons emotional and physical…

Addiction is a rapidly growing issue impacting todays society. Unfortunatly, there are many different types of addictions and each one brings along a unique set of challenges. The American Phsychiatic Association describes addiction as a complex condition, a brain disease that is manifested by compulsive substance use despite harmful consequence. Drug addictions hinder and restrain…

Definition of addiction- WHO definition: The Tenth Revision of the International Classification of Diseases and Health Problems (ICD-10) defines the dependence syndrome as being a cluster of physiological, behavioural, and cognitive phenomena in which the use of a substance or a class of substances takes on a much higher priority for a given individual than…

The Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health stated that an estimated 2.1 million people in the United States [were] suffering from substance use disorders related to prescription opioid pain relievers in 2012 and an estimated 467,000 addicted to heroin. (Volkow) Opioids are the most commonly prescribed drugs for managing moderate-to-severe chronic…

Nature alludes to the entirety of the qualities and inherited elements that impact our identity, from our physical appearance to our character attributes. Nurture can be defined as all the environmental factors that sway who we are, including our youth encounters, how we were raised, our social connections, and our encompassing society. Some philosophers, for…

Say No To Drugs Few people deny the dangers of drug use, while many teens are curious about drugs. They should fail to abstain from drugs because drugs affect our health, and lead to academic failure. Drugs have been used for a long time in many countries. The concentration of drugs has increased since the…

Drug overdose is one of the leading causes of death in America and across the world. According to recent world headlines, in 2015, about 300 million opioid prescriptions were written, with more than 80% being written in the United States (Davidson). According to author Tish Davidson, this is only one part of the American public…