Substance Abuse, Gary L. Fisher And Thomas C. Harrison Define Addiction

The first habit is, Be Proactive. That mean you should take responsibility for your actions and words. You should not go behind someone and talk about them. You should not pull pranks or call people name. You should stand up for people and get teachers involved when you see someone getting bullied. You should go out and try to make the world a better place. An example of being proactive is,” Forgive her and give her a second chance.” page 50 .I can apply this habit to my life by planting a tree once a year and picking up any trash that I see one the ground. I can also apply this to my life by being more forgiving.

In recent years, there has been increasing concerns about the frequent and excessive misuse of alcohol by adolescents (Jones & Gregory, 2009), and younger adolescents are starting to consume greater amounts of alcohol (Smith & Foxcroft, 2009). This brings up the issue of addiction. Addiction is a condition whereby an individual is both mentally and physically dependent on a substance or activity to the extent of compulsivity and it negatively impacts various aspects of his life. As defined by the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health (DSM-5), substance use disorder is the problematic pattern of substance use that results in impairment or distress in an individual’s daily life.

Addiction is a term that has traditionally been used to refer to psychiatric syndrome that is caused by illicit drug use. Actually, addition is the only psychiatric condition whose symptoms are regarded as an illegal activity. In most cases, this term is described on the basis of drug use, which is the main focus of many research and treatment programs. Generally, drug addiction has significant negative effects on individuals using the drug and those around them such as family and friends. Family and friends are usually forced to watch their loved ones wilt away in illicit drug use. While addiction has traditionally been regarded as a psychiatric condition, there are numerous debates that have emerged on

The term addiction holds many different meanings in today’s society, but in the past it has been referred to as a sort of devotion to something. Over time, a more modern definition of the term has developed that links addiction to harmful involvement with drugs that eventually has potential of produce withdrawal or tolerance in an individual (Alexander & Schweighofer, 1988). Although the word addiction holds a more general meaning in a modern context it pertains to any kind of compulsive use. Current psychological authorities refer to drug addictions as substance abuse rather than simply an addiction for many reasons; the two conditions can be differentiated by the specificity of the substance being

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,

Society as a whole is impacted greatly by substance abuse and addiction. Not only does it hurt the abuser directly, but it also becomes an enormous financial and social burden on society. Addiction wrecks families, and also highly correlates with poverty because the drug abuser ends up giving everything that they have to keep their addiction going. It also places extraordinarily high demands on the education, criminal justice, and social service systems. Children and babies both are dangerously impacted by the addiction of their parents and the same addiction is likely to even show up in their own lives later on. Drug babies are being born every day already addicted to the same substances their mothers have abused; they are the ones who truly suffer the greatest consequences of the effects of addiction. Teenagers are peer pressured by the alcohol and beer industries to drink; many alcoholics in our society are a result from binge drinking while in college and even in high school. People bound by these addictions who never get the help they truly need or lose their family and feel alone often commit suicide because they feel they are unimportant to society and that ending their own lives is their only means of escape.

Whereas having a psychological dependence is a sense of need for a specific substance, either for its positive effects or to avoid negative effects. (Shultz, 2003).

Substance abuse and drug addiction affects people from all walks of life. Drugs are available to those who want to consume them. Even though there vast amounts of literature and other informative and preventive data, people still choose to abuse drugs. Unfortunately, most of them become addicts and find it very difficult to escape their addiction for the reason that underlying issues may be causing them to seek and use drugs. There exists a number of special populations that are identified and may use drugs to cope certain stress factors in their life.

Habit 3 is put first things first. So a good way you can get into starting this habit is by getting a journal or calendar to document your plan and the steps you need to complete your plan to achieve your goal. This will help you keep track of what's going on. So for example , if you have a test in two days write it down in a calendar and look back at it so then you want be studying at the last minute. So always be aware of what needs to be done and what doesn't. Shirley Conran stated, "First things first, second things never"(

Some bad habits that I am practicing are procrastination and being not well adapted to sports.

Drug and alcohol abuse and addiction contribute to the largest portion of all crime, and this correlation is the leading culprit to induce crime. (Goode, 2012) Although there is a common knowledge of drug and alcohol abuse, drug and alcohol abuse or addiction contributes to the largest portion of all crime, and this correlation is the foremost culprit to induce crime. Across the United States and throughout the world there is an epidemic of epic proportion involving drug and alcohol addiction. Addiction is defined as a psychological illness characterized by intense craving for a particular substance (Corrections pg 652). Substance abuse problems are extremely difficult to treat because individuals most at risk for becoming addicted share many of the same traits associated with chronic criminal behavior, with many of the traits being genetic (Corrections, pg 434). Each year, nearly 700,000 men and women are released from prison into communities across the United States (Sabol, Minton, and Harrison 2007). Many do not make a successful transition: two-thirds are arrested within three years and one-half are returned to prison, either for parole violation or new crimes (Langan and Levin 2002). This revolving door phenomenon is costly in terms of criminal justice system costs, not only the human and social costs suffered by crime victims, returning prisoners, their families, and the communities in which they reside.

Whenever someone thinks of what an addict should be, many different images come to mind. It could be the homeless man on the street, the raging adolescent who is struggling, the majority of the prison population. My grandfather himself dealt with his own addiction. He struggled for many years with alcoholism as well as an opiate addiction. Many of my family members cast him out and told him that if he really wanted to stop he would. His addiction went on for years before he was admitted to rehab and even after years of sobriety, he still thinks it was his fault for getting involved in drugs in the first place. It seems as though this is a common theme, in which people believe the addict is the one to blame and they just lack the willpower to stop. However, this is not the case. Continual drug use has the power to drastically affect the addict’s mind and only make it harder to stop substance abuse. Most addicts don’t even know this and soon believe that this is their fault when it’s not. In other words, it’s necessary to deem addiction as a chronic, relapsing disorder that affects the brain and its cognitive processes as this definition can lead many addicts to recovery and a shame free life.

The behavior I want to eliminate in this assignment is my habit of lips licking and biting. When I heard about this assignment, I started to search for a bad habit. After a few days of observation, I found that I bite my lips a lot and also I lick my lips. Especially, while I am in a boring class or when I am in boring situations. People’s around me never told me that I lick and bite my lips, therefore I think this behavior of mine is not very recognizable. The reason why I want to eliminate this habit is because, when I lick my lips, saliva makes my lips very dry and easy to crack caused from excessive licking and biting. Although, this behavior of mine does not bother me much, it damages my lips a lot and makes it look bad which makes me want to eliminate this behavior more.

Nails’ biting is a behavior that I was addicted to and wants to stop doing that behavior. I started biting my nails when I was in the

Substance abuse and drug diversion are ubiquitous in our healthcare institutions, rendering healthcare providers incompetent in providing safe, appropriate patient care. “Untreated opioid dependence harms the individual and society through increased mortality, increased risk of blood-borne virus transmission associated with injecting drug use, poor social functioning, loss of economic productivity and criminal justice expenditure” (Wright et al., 2015, p. e368). Frequently, hospital administration does realize the existence of the issue, but fail to identify the signs and symptoms of addiction, determine the factors that lead to it or formulate strategies to address the misconduct.