Margie's Addiction

Is drug addiction is a disease, not a choice? Or it is a choice and not a disease? Drug Addiction has become a serious issue in society today, with an increase in controversy leading towards the topic of whether drug addiction is a disease or a choice. Addiction and disease are two different things and understanding them is very important when it comes to drugs and how it affects the mind and body. Several people tend to jump the gun and think that drug addiction is a disease, when in fact it is a choice. Some scientists believe that that drug addiction is a disease and to an extent that it makes people powerless to control its prevalence, on the other hand some scientists believe that addiction is a choice and that people have

The father’s drinking and the mother’s temper result from the emotional impact of the devastating accident. The family eventually had to move to other city because they could not bear living their anymore because of the car accident. Not only did the accident affect the mom and dad, it affected the children.

Without a steady source of income, the bills normally acquired by a family (mortgage or rent, groceries, utilities, and so forth) begin to accumulate, affecting the families financial situation further. In the book The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls gives multiple descriptions of how devastating alcoholism can be on a family financially. Jeannette’s father, who was an alcoholic, would often only hold a job for a few months at a time, and moved quite often to avoid bill collectors. “We were always doing the skedaddle, usually in the middle of the night” (Walls 19). At one point, he even resorted to stealing from his own daughter. “One evening in May, when we’d been saving our money for nine months, I came home with a couple of dollars I’d made babysitting and went into the bedroom to stash them in Oz (her piggy bank). The pig was not in the old sewing machine” (Walls 228). One can see this not only takes a financial toll, but an emotional one as well.

According to DrugAbuse.gov, long-term studies of drug use patterns show that most high school students who use other illegal drugs have tried marijuana first. Teens are often peer pressured into doing drugs; they get to comfortable with them they inevitably reframe to harder and more potent drugs. In Cole Meyer’s short story, “Addiction” the narrator is a struggling teen addict and his addiction continues to worsen as he ages. Meyer uses setting, character and conflict to illustrate the devastating effects of addiction on the individual.

     By losing this father figure she was left to fend for herself and was virtually helpless.

A few times in the book she would be inappropriately touched, or beaten up, and her father would do nothing to avenge or just protect his daughter. Brian came to her side a couple times and defended her against bullies, but Rex would never be empathetic. She had a little brother, but what she needed, was a preventive father. When Rex came home drunk most of the nights, he was violent and rude to his children. To try and make a difference for the whole family, and to get them to believe in Dad again, her birthday present she wished for was for her father to stop drinking. He lasted a couple months, but the disappointment and betrayal she felt of her father was immense and “...she couldn’t believe Dad had gone back to the booze” (Walls 123). She was the last to believe in him and with the overwhelming dishonesty and deception, at last, she had finally lost faith in her Dad.

She would get drunk everyday in order to ease her pain and not think about what happened. When Sarah is drunk she forgets about her responsibilities and she ignores all the help around her. Sarah has torn her family apart. Her father and older brother have taken her out of there lives, but her mother provides her with the

The background information regarding Mary Williams: Mary is a twenty-eight-year-old Caucasian female. She has black hair, wearing a white shirt that says “kit” written in blue letters, wearing black jeans, and is observed overweight. She reports that she wants to stop drinking because it “has taken control of my life”. A transcription between the client is below.

Meghan's father served 3 years at Concord State Prison. Her grandfather was her father figure for most of her life and he passed away of cancer late in her sophomore year. Previously in the 10th grade, Meghan had an abusive boyfriend who later physically abused and raped her, and was sexually assaulted by another student who attends Hanover High School during her Junior year. Her dad has continued to have an on and off substance abuse problem that has been affecting her since she was young. Since her sophomore year Meghan has been diagnosed with severe depression, anxiety, and PTSD. She received no child support from her father and depended on welfare, which was hard for her living in Hanover because she wasn't able to socially connect as much

First of all, Mrs. Dubose fights off her drug addiction all on her own, though it is not necessary to experience the pain of withdrawing her drug as she “‘only [has] a few months left’”to live. Mrs. Dubose is “‘a morphine addict’” and she has been for years as she is using it as painkillers to treat her sickness. She is“‘sick for a long time’” and only got a few months more to spare, but she still has the determination to break herself from an extremely addictive drug. Mrs. Dubose wants “‘ to leave this world (lazy) nobody’” and is willing to take on the pain and suffrage from withdrawing morphine. Discontinuing morphine will not make Mrs. Dubose live longer and it will only make her suffer through the last few months of her life, but to her,

Laura Hope Laws was a hopeful and helpful young woman, and an active member of her church’s youth group. At only 14, she had a spot on her varsity soccer team; soon in her career, she broke her jaw and had been prescribed pain killers. She then became addicted to them. At 13, Laura experimented with alcohol and marijuana, but it never became a problem. After running out of her pain killers, however, Laura searched and searched for more, but then decided to turn to something more available: heroin.

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Whip let these issues get the best of him and realized when things had to come to an end. Whip tried to control his addictions 7 days before his testimony and he failed himself. When things like this happens that’s when drug addiction camp comes a long and rehab. He was sentenced to jail time and over the year he had become sober. He had to face the truth in order for him to actually help himself.

Rick and Morty is a science fiction television show featuring Rick, a genius inventor and mad scientist, and Morty, an average high school teenager by all definitions of the word. Rick often pushes Morty to his limit by going on outrageous escapades throughout the multiverse. Most of their adventures feature Rick taking swigs from his infamous canteen, if not him getting completely drunk. When Rick gets drunk, his adventures become more life-threatening, but the duo always seem to find a way out of their pickle. Although Rick’s actions have some short-term consequences, his repeated use of alcohol has no real long-term ramifications throughout the show. In doing so, the show purveys the idea of inconsequential substance abuse.

Ms. Class reported when the parents were together, she had concerns regarding his use of alcohol. She stated that she believed that he was developing a drinking problem “he would drink a bottle of liquor or a six pack”. Ms. Class stated that during that time she would not leave the children