Free Essays on Addiction

  1. The Effect of Addiction

     The Effect of Addiction Tenisha Williams BSHS 455 March 16, 2015 Dawn Oliwa The Effect of Addiction According to "Psychology Today" (1991-2015), " Addiction is a condition that results when a person ingest a substance or engages in an activity that can be pleasurable but the continued...

  2. Sex Addiction

    Nymphomania, hyper sexuality, sexual addiction, sexual perversion, and sexual obsession are all words for essentially the same addiction- the addiction to sex. Sex is of course an extremely broad term, and as a result, defining exactly what sexual addiction is can be very difficult. A person can be obsessed...

  3. Video Game Addiction

    Video Game Addiction Kevin Platzer UMUC Asia ​According to research by the Entertainment Software Association (2013) 58% of Americans play video games. The population of the United States is 314 million, meaning there are 182 million people playing video games, and that’s just one country. Furthermore...

  4. opiate addiction therapy

    Opiate addiction: Suboxone, Methadone, in home therapy, and genetic testing as ways to treat an epidemic. Angel Blackburn was only 15 years old when her life began to journey down a dangerous empty road. She was at that age where a social life was everything. Growing up in a small town known to have...

  5. Believes on addiction

    As a result, we didn’t know any other way of thinking but of what our parents told us. In this paper, I will refer back to the different models of addiction that took place during my life span. As a kid, I often recall thinking about how I didn’t know much about my grandmother’s family (my mom’s mom)...

  6. Addiction

     People Affected By Drug Addiction Garet Mall ENG/147 03/22/2015 Anne Cox People Affected By Drug Addiction Who struggles with an addiction to drugs or alcohol? Addiction does not care about your race, gender or age. More people, who are becoming addicts,...

  7. addiction paper

     Conceptualizing Addiction Angel Salinas University of Phoenix BHSH 455 April 3, 2016 Conceptualizing Addiction Clinical helping professionals have developed a number of psychological, socio-cultural, and biological explanations of the causes associated with different...

  8. Conceptualizing Addiction

     Conceptualizing Addiction BSHS/455 April 04, 2016 Conceptualizing Addiction How does using substances such as drugs and alcohol become an addiction? There are quite a few responses to that particular observation. The two models or theories we will be looking at are the learning theory...

  9. Internet Addiction Disorder

    Internet addiction disorder What do you think of when you hear the word “addiction”? You probably think of drugs. Marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc. But, how about more recreational things? Like, the Internet. You may be thinking, ‘The Internet...

  10. Gambeling Addiction

    Name: Daniel R. Thomas Topic: Gambling Addiction Thesis: To persuade the audience about the dangers of having a gambling addiction, the steps, signs, and causes that shows one is addicted, and how it affects yourself, your family, and others close to you in your life. Introduction I...

  11. Counseling and Addiction: Individual vs Group or Family Therapy

    Counseling and Addiction Save This Article For Later Why do I need to register or sign in for WebMD to save? We will provide you with a dropdown of all your saved articles when you are registered and signed in. Share this: Font size: AAA Kicking the prescription drug abuse habit -- or any other addiction -- is...

  12. Drug abuse and drug addiction - Essay

    LP 4 Drug abuse and drug addiction Drug Addiction- The definition of addiction is a persistent, compulsive dependence on a behavior or substance. The term has been partially replaced by the word dependence for substance abuse. Addiction has been extended, however, to include mood-altering behaviors...

  13. PSY 331 Week 2 Assignment Nicotine Addiction and Aversion Therapy

    Nicotine Addiction and Aversion Therapy http://www.homeworkregency.com/downloads/psy-331-week-2-assignment-nicotine-addiction-aversion-therapy/ Or Visit Our Website Visit : http://www.homeworkregency.com Email Us : homeworkregency@gmail.com PSY 331 Week 2 Assignment Nicotine Addiction and...

  14. The Science of Drug Abuse and Addiction

    Drug Abuse and Addiction from the National Institute on Drug Abuse Archives of the National Institute on Drug Abuse web site Home > Publications > An Individual Drug Counseling Approach to Treat Cocaine Addiction An Individual Drug Counseling Approach to Treat Cocaine Addiction Chapter...

  15. PSY 300 Week 2 Individual Assignment Phobias And Addictions Paper

    Week 2 Individual Assignment Phobias And Addictions Paper Click Following Link To Purchase http://www.uopcoursetutorials.com/PSY-300/PSY-300-Week-2–Individual-Assignment-Phobias-and-Addictions-Paper PSY 300 Week 2 Individual Assignment Phobias and Addictions Paper Prepare a 1,050- to 1,400-word...

  16. Addiction to Drugs and Alcohol

    Addiction to drugs and alcohol is a social issue that affects many people around the world. Not only does it affect the addict themselves, but their families and friends as well. It is estimated that the annual value of the global illegal drugs trade is around $400 billion. ( www.alcoholism-and-drug-addiction-help...

  17. PSY 331 Week 2 Assignment Nicotine Addiction and Aversion Therapy To Buy this Class Copy & paste below link in your Brower

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  18. Introduction to Addiction

    Essay Introduction to addiction 3- Motives are generated by drives, emotional states and evaluations and past experiences play an important role in their generation. Past experiences have attached emotion to them and when these are in our mind can lead to motives. More than one motive can co-exist...

  19. Addiction Genes: Alcoholism

    Addiction Genes: Alcoholism Addiction Genes: Alcohol There are many theories about the origin of Alcohol addiction. Some say that alcoholism is a mental disease in which a person may not have the psychological desire to abstain from alcohol. They drink because they want...

  20. Drug Addiction

    Drugs Addiction – Essay In recent times, drug-addiction in India has assumed menacing proportions and the evil is increasing by leaps and bounds. It is Wide-spreading the hostels and campuses of the universities and technical and professional institutions of the country. Charas, Ganja, Heroin,...

  21. Addiction in John Cheevers the Enormous Radio

    Enormous Radio" is actually a study of addiction: the kind of addiction common to many obsessive-compulsive personalities. No stranger to addiction, Cheever wrote the following in his journal: "Since I know so much about incarceration and addiction why can't I write about it? [. . .] I...

  22. The Addiction of a Nation

    The Addiction of a Nation William L. Reed University of Phoenix Organizational Ethics and Social Responsibility 219 Larry Henry July 05, 2010 The Addiction of a Nation After 156 years of rule under the British Sovereignty, the Crown colony of Hong Kong and the peninsula of Kowloon were...

  23. Internet addiction

    Internet addiction disorder What do you think of when you hear the word “addiction”? You probably think of drugs. Marijuana, cocaine, heroin, etc. But, how about more recreational things? Like, the Internet. You may be thinking, 'The Internet? How can you be addicted to that?’. Well, the Internet is...

  24. Behavior Modification: Shopping Addiction

    Behavior Modification Project: Shopping Addiction There is an old saying that the first step to recovery is to admit that there is a problem. For me, this is easier said than done because I had never really viewed my shopping as a “problem” or an “addiction” until now. So for six weeks I kept a little...

  25. Smoking Cessation and Nicotine De-addiction Products Market Estimated to Value USD 16.02 Billion Globally by 2019

    Nicotine De-addiction Products Market (Nicotine Gums, Patches, Lozenges, Inhalers, Sprays, Sublingual Tablets, Zyban, Chantix/Champix, E-cigarettes) - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 - 2019" ,the global market for Smoking Cessation and Nicotine De-addiction Products...

  26. Internet Addiction - Case study

    The Internet addiction essay This essay is devoted to Internet usage aspect is it more helpful or harmful? Last years the mankind faced the other global phenomenon – invention of the Internet. Nowadays the Internet is more and more essential in the life of a contemporary individual. The Internet...

  27. Recommendations for Teenage Drug Addiction Problem

    Recommendations for Teenage Drug Addiction problem Addiction is a chronic, often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive drug seeking and use despite harmful consequences to the individual who is addicted and to those around them. Many people do not understand why individuals become addicted...

  28. Meth Addiction

    jaw clenching as well as many others (Health Effects, 2014). In contrast, those who use the drug frequently will have long-term effects including addiction, memory loss, organ damage, confusion as well as others (Health Effects, 2014). In addition to those effects, once addicted, without constant use...

  29. Heroin Addiction

    Jamie Psychology Heroin Addiction Drugs such as heroin can influence how the brain functions by sending agonist molecules to the receptor cites of the cell. These agonist molecules imitate the effect of neurotransmitter molecules by filling the receptor sites of the cell to simulate the same...

  30. gambling addictions/human service profession

    desire to stop gambling. I believe that compulsive gambling is a lot like having an addiction to a drug or alcohol because it is something that you cannot just stop doing when you feel like it. Just like having an addiction to drugs and alcohol, people that addicted to gambling also feel that there life...

  31. 12 Step Recovery Program Meeting Addiction to Cigarettes

    Program Meeting – Addiction to Cigarettes Sociology 3382 Karen Hernandez 0950176 March 11, 2011 12 Step Recovery Program Meeting – Addiction to Cigarettes A recovery meeting is a place where strangers can go to and participate in a process that will help them get over their addiction(s). Not all meetings...

  32. Gambling Addiction

    Gambling Addiction Gambling is any activity that involves payment, risk, and prize. It may come in a thousand different packages, it may claim to be for a worthy cause, but it remains an activity designed to take the money of many and place it in the hands of a few. In addition, just because something...

  33. Video Game Addiction

    person needs more and more of a substance or behavior to keep him going ¨ Classifications as a Disorder ¨effects are similar to other psychological addictions ¨similar to compulsive gambling ¨Possible Causes ¨built in reward systems in the games ¨psychological needs are satisfied by many video games...

  34. Gambling Addiction

    Instructor: Content: Mental and Emotional Health Goals: Students will define gambling and learn why gambling addiction is a growing concern. Students will use role play to practice effective ways to say no to gambling. Objective: Students will explain why gambling is a problem....

  35. Technology Addiction - 1

    read our Facebook newsfeed and reply to unread text messages, all in a matter of seconds. For some people technology has over taken their lives. Addiction to technology is a serious problem, the advancement and use of technological devices has become an obsession and brought forth unhealthy changes in...

  36. Addiction of Using Facebook

    Title To study the addiction of using facebook. Introduction Facebook is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can...

  37. Fast Food Addiction

    really are not. With all that sugar it is just going to drive us back to the Big Macs and Double Quarter Pounders which is just going to add to our addiction. Most people who eat fast food every now and then can live a comfortable life without it. But the heavy consumers of fast food can not. If...

  38. crisis centers

    Carmen Melendez PS124 – Unit 8 About the Article As a Addiction specialist I chose an article that would certainly play a role in my career, There are many facets to addiction today, and it comes in many forms, such as food addiction, alcohol, and substance abuse .Which also affects our mental...

  39. RE: My likes

    I am going to talk about some main points about this. 1. Internet addiction 2. Using cell phones instead of talking face to face As we said, internet addiction is one of the reasons we became socially isolated. Internet addiction causes people together a house but barely communicating because of...

  40. Research Development Paper

    behavior such as alcoholism or addiction to drugs. Addiction for instance refers not only to substance intake but can be to a behavior as well hence there are a lot of additions that needs to be worked on now a days. Take for instance, sex addiction or shopping addiction. This only shows that these indulgences...

  41. ASH PSY 303 Week 2 DQ 2 Dependency Issues

    substance intoxication, and substance withdrawal. Provide a brief definition of addiction, in your own words. What are the similarities and differences in the levels of involvement in the following substance-related stages of addiction: use, intoxication, abuse, and dependence? Discuss why people continue...

  42. Psychology Paper

    Addiction Professional’s Code of Ethics The job of an addiction professional comes with many responsibilities. The future of many clients who go to addiction professionals for help may very well be determined by the caliber of treatment the patient received while attending addiction therapy. There are...

  43. Traumatic Histories and Substance Abuse

    Traumatic Histories & Substance Abuse Mikayla DiPaola Addictions & Dependencies Professor Darroch Midterm Paper "The thing about addiction is, it never ends well. Because eventually, whatever it is that was getting us high...

  44. The Link Between Drugs and Crime

    they were under the influence of drugs, or they may have been perpetrated, by the addict to enable them to accumulate the funds needed finance their addiction. These are known as drug ' defined crimes and drug-related crimes. Drug- defined crimes are violations of laws prohibiting or regulating the possession...

  45. UOP PSYCH 575 Week 6 Learning Team Assignment Effect of Drug Use Presentation

    use on the physiology of the brain, and on behavior, mood, and cognition.If a person developed an addiction to the drug you selected, what therapeutic interventions would be used to treat the addiction? UOP PSYCH 575 Week 6 Learning Team Assignment Effect of Drug Use Presentation Check this...

  46. Internet Addict

    psychological disease called internet addiction syndrome and he could not control himself and always desired to use internet even though he spent hourly with it. Recently several extensive discussions have been held to figure out negative affections of internet addiction for adult. Many well-know leading...

  47. Argument Proposal

    11Sept2015 Argument Proposal Issue Question: What is needed for an effective recovery from drug addiction? My Claim: The Narcotics Anonymous program is detrimental for effective recovery from drug addiction.  Because no one can successfully get sober on their own.  Because its been one of...

  48. Requiem for a Dream

    a glimpse into a world they might not ever see. The movie portrays a group of people who eventually succumb to the horrors of drug addiction and despair. Drug addiction can change people who are full of hope and dreams into people who don’t care about anything else but getting high. People who are addicted...

  49. PSY 240 Week 7 DQ 1

    drugs, Jack dies from an overdose. Discuss how drug tolerance and conditioning may factor into this outcome. Explain the possible reasons for their addiction. UOPCOURSETUTORIALS http://www.uopcoursetutorials.com PSY 240PSY 240 Week 7 DQ 1 Click Following Link To Purchase http://www.uopcoursetutorials...

  50. Casino Gambling

    take two separate activities and combine them to make a stronger, more potent solution. Treatment of gambling addiction comes in many forms and most people who actually seek help for this addiction ultimately participate in some type of counseling or therapy. The ideas of taking up a sport that is challenging...

  51. PSY 300 UOP Courses Tutorial / Uoptutorial

    of Psychology Paper PSY 300 Week 2 Discussion Question 1 PSY 300 Week 2 Discussion Question 2 PSY 300 week 2 Individual Assignment Phobias and Addictions Paper PSY 300 Week 3 Discussion Question 1 PSY 300 Week 3 Discussion Question 2 PSY 300 week 3 Individual Assignment Gardner Intelligence Paper ...

  52. workaholism

    excessive work as a potential addiction is examined along with the problem of defining what lies at the core of being addicted to work. Using criteria adapted from other behavioural addictions, it is argued that excessive work can in some circumstances viewed as a genuine addiction that shares many similarities...

  53. Death and Dying

    ---------------- Non-Substance Addiction Paper 03/20/2012 SWCK 4143 – Addiction and the Family Non-Substance Addiction Paper The non-substance addiction I decided to address is the theory of tattooing being an addiction. I had spent thirteen years in the military...

  54. Template of id

    smoking/vaping? Smoking could lead to possible addiction and various diseases that are a result of smoking such as lung cancer. Vaping could also lead to oral cancer or also possible addiction to the nicotine inside of it. Even if you do not get any diseases or cancer addiction can affect your life very negatively...

  55. How to Kill a Mocking Bird

    cause addiction. Marie Winn says “the essence of any serious addiction is a pursuit of pleasure, a search for a 'high' that normal life does not supply.” in her Plug-In Drug (“Electronic Heroin.”) She presents watching television as a serious addiction, comparing...

  56. substance abuse

    Is Substance Abuse A Disease Or A Moral Choice? According to an article on http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3273499/ “Addiction is a chronic relapsing disease that we must treat as we do other such diseases. We do not expect the hearts of patients with heart failure to behave normally — we...

  57. Internet Effect for Children

    overexposure to its usage can alter a child’s development. Indirectly, the internet is hurting the children of this generation through isolation, addiction, and exposure to uncensored materials. Facebook and Twitter has provided connection between teenagers, but the overuse of the aforementioned steals...

  58. Ondcp

    Strategy is reducing drug abuse and addiction. This portion of the strategy is guided by two principles: 1) addiction is a disease and 2) addiction is treatable (Office of National Drug Control Policy, 2008a, p. 15). It is about time that we reassess how we view drug addiction, which is as a health problem...

  59. notes

     Addiction By Latisha Hargrove COM/156 Drug addiction is the use of a drug or substance for any reason other than which it’s intended for or in a manner or in large amounts other than what it is used for. Many people get addicted to drug for many reasons. Environmental...

  60. electronic cigs

    International Journal of Drug Policy journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/drugpo Research paper Nicotine control: E-cigarettes, smoking and addiction Kirsten Bell a,∗ , Helen Keane b a b Department of Anthropology, 6303 NW Marine Drive, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3...