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Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, industrialized nations have seen the medicalization of a plethora of diseases including the ongoing trend of acknowledging addiction as a ‘brain disease.’ The claimsmaking made primarily by Nora Volkow in the documentary Addiction encompasses the constructionist ideologies of socially constructing a problem, or in the case of deviant drinking and drug use, a disease. The functionality of medicalization in America is seen with many different conditions and diseases. For example, the recent spike in the prescription of medications for ADD and ADHD is a prime model for how a deviant set of traits can be spun into a more socially acceptable and treatable “disease.” Whether or not drug and alcohol addiction

Since the creation of drugs, its abuse and addiction became a taboo. As technology advanced into the 21st century, an impetus in civilization created the allure of drugs, which became propagated and popularized into modern society. Consequently, its Achilles heel created a social epidemic which threatened their innocence. Therefore, the conundrum of this phenomenon caused challenges for the addict, society, and treatment providers. Nonetheless, as problem arises, solutions await its discovery; and, as new and innovated ideas emerged, there are precipitate and modern challenges when getting individuals into addiction treatment.

For many years, we as a society have assumed that those who become addicted to drugs or alcohol do so out of character weakness and / or moral depravity. While choices and judgment make up a part of why some people become addicted, it does not account for all people. Many people who initially are treated with prescription painkillers for legitimate pain soon discover they have exchanged a pain problem for a full-blown and life-threatening addiction.

This addiction to substances, whether natural or manufactured, directly results in loss of lives and crime increase throughout the world.

Addiction is complex and is often misunderstood; However, many individuals and medical professionals are now referring to addiction as a disease, not just a poor decision that is made by an individual. Addiction is a problem that spirals out of control and has the potential to absorb every thought and action while wreaking havoc on the body. According to Narcotics Anonymous, “...it is our fellowship's collective experience and understanding that addiction is, in fact, a disease. (What is Addiction?, NA, 2015)”

Addiction Rough Draft Did you know that it is statistically proven that addiction is more common than diabetes? 10% of the human population is addicted to either a drug or alcohol. A person can be addicted to several substances, not just drugs and alcohol. By having more options of addiction, this

While there are many myths about addiction we will only be looking at a few of them to establish if these myths are true or false. The number one assumption is that an addict can stop if they choose to. While a very small amount might be able to quit, research has shown that long term use of substances like nicotine, alcohol or other drugs alters the user’s chemistry in their brain, challenging the addicts’ self-control and resistance to the intense urge of whatever the addiction is to (drug, food, shopping, sex, video game).

Planet earth has seven different continents. On these continents, there are different countries, within these countries there are several different states and territories. In these territories, there are various cities, and each city or town has its own society and culture. Much has changed over time, heaps of these changes are material changes like technology, transportation, and fashion. Then, there have also been non-materialistic changes such as societal norms (women’s rights, gay marriage, racial equality). One matter which has not changed throughout history is the use of substances and their addictions. The use of different types of substances has increased over time and now there persist numerous different types of addictive drugs from

Drug addiction is something many of us don’t encounter every day. Addiction has, plagued every society across the world, and continues to do so today. It has led to the decimation of towns, cities, and countries; yet we know little about what factors influence addiction. In the past it used to be viewed as a very simple almost binary process, that process being, if someone uses drugs they will become addicted. This idea was challenged and many began to believe that there were much deeper factors at play beyond the pharmacological properties of substances. It pushed us to question what aspects of society, culture, or biology leads people to substance abuse. It wanted to further analyze what factors turn some people from occasional recreational

Drug addictions have been around just as long as humans have. Dating back to over 3,000 years ago with the ancient Egyptians as it is documented in history books talking about their addictions to opium, and in the 1600s, with the smoke-able version of opium being distributed to enslaved Chinese, Japanese workers (Butler, Shier, and David 380). A drug addiction is defined by The New England Journal of Medicine as “a chronic, relapsing disorder in which compulsive drug-seeking and drug-taking behavior persists despite serious negative consequences. Addictive substances induce pleasant states or relieve distress. Continued use induces adaptive changes in the central nervous system that lead to tolerance, physical dependence, sensitization,

Addiction is a severe problem facing millions of people every year. People can become addicted to many things, but the main problem revolves around alcohol and illegal drugs. These substances change the brain’s structure to need more and more of it, which in turn makes the addict focus on the

Addiction can bear a heavy load on one's life. It does this by hijacking the brain into feeling that a certain substance or activity is necessary to one's survival. If one is to beat an addiction, then it is important to understand the underlying mechanisms that caused it to occur in the first

The curse of addiction is a complication the human race has been dealing with for centuries. It is varied and often comorbid with other addictions and/or psychiatric afflictions. For many years, addicts have been described as lazy and not disciplined enough to quit their bad habit(s) but more and more

Current definitions of addiction classify it as harmful, morally wrong and even criminal. Although I understand seeing it as immoral, addiction is foremost a question of why do people become addicted to unhealthy substances and habits? I believe addiction is a complex social, emotional and physiological condition that is part

Firstly, many people argue for the legalization of hard drugs, even though drugs are addictive and stop people from being happy. According to Volkow’s article in addictscience.com, hard “drugs significantly overstimulate dopamine and cause long-lasting changes in the brain’s Limbic system. This over-stimulation has a cost; it depletes dopamine pathways long after the last dose”. (addictscience.com). The chemical released is called dopamine and it is a stimulate pleasure in the brain and with the usage of hard drugs dopamine gets released in large quantities, but gradually the pleasure experienced by the dopamine begins to fade. With the dopamine fading the user has to rely on a higher dosage of the hard drug to get the same effect that was experienced during the first high.