Addicts

(2006) further explain that addictive behavior is motivated by the expectancy of the drug. Essentially, when an addict is exposed to cues previously paired with drug-use, for example drug paraphernalia or contexts in which drugs were taken; they elicit responses such as drug-seeking behavior and withdrawal symptoms that result in drug abuse. Hogarth & Dickinson

the height of the epidemic, now heroin OD deaths outnumber gun homicides (Ingraham 2). It is obvious that these unprecedented levels of drug deaths are derived from the opioid epidemic and need immediate attention. Even if people believe that drug addicts

had not undergone the pains and travails that a person addicted to alcohol and drugs undergoes or suffers from it. Such an addict is required to be treated like a patient suffering from a disease. Addicts live in a world of fright/fantasy and embarrassment when it comes to acknowledging that they are addicted to drug or alcohol. Therefore, society must need to help these addicts/patients in their struggle for freeing themselves from the addiction to drugs and alcohol. The drug and alcohol rehab centers

disease; I will identify several types of addictions, and the problems associated with them. I will examine reasons why certain people are more susceptible for developing an addiction. Also, I will determine why many addicts deny their problems and many recovery methods addicts use to fight their illness. Researching these issues, will help aid my claim that addiction is a disease. Addictions can form from using mood altering drugs such as, nicotine, alcohol, cocaine and caffeine, or

use can develop lung cancer, heart disease. Many times the addict has the choice to partake in using the drug, but using the drug extended period of time it begins to alter the mental functions producing the choice of using the drug out of need. Presently many people know a person who is an addict, although this illness only affects individuals this disease has the ability to leave long last effects on love ones and how those around the addict move forward in the future. Tobacco is the primary source

platform, which enables the addict. The family structure becomes disorganized because an addiction disorders destroy and incorporate boundaries within the system, normal not agreed upon chosen family members. The addict insists n maintain family balance by deflecting attention away from real problems limiting the addiction and family motto within family members who you don't talk don't trust don't feel. Ultimately, a family system affected by addiction and changes, impacts the addict and individual members

himself because he cannot stand to be Mr. Hyde any longer. Dr. Jekyll is in denial, he experimented with the potion, and because he is addicted to becoming Mr. Hyde, all of this makes Dr. Jekyll comparable to a drug addict of today. One way Dr. Jekyll is similar to a drug addict is that denial is a stage of addiction. According to Azure Acres, a recovery center in California, there are many kinds of denial. Dr. Jekyll seems to be in Type A denial. Type A denial is when a person understands

implementing laws and decriminalizing the use of drugs. The program Portugal has changed the region from diseases transmitted by needles, overdose rates, crime rates, death rates and even has a lower percentage of drug addicts. This treatment and not punishment is very affective from getting the addicts to not go back to narcotics. Portugal has put in laws to get treatment for the people are caught with having with having a less than ten day supply of any type of addicting drug as in marijuana or heroin and

The Narcotics Anonymous meetings I attended were held in community centers, the meeting formats were the same, the environments were clean however sterile concerning anything on the walls that referenced N.A. In the back of the room, a portable table was setup for literature, and coffee and tea. The seating arrangement was a huge circle; about 25-30 individuals attended each meeting. The members were all ages and from all socio-economic status’. They were welcoming, friendly, and everyone hugged

to drugs, want to help the drug addict in any way possible. However, many people’s attitudes change when the drug addict is not directly related to them. According to Department of Justice statistics, forty-eight percent of all prisoners in federal prison were incarcerated for drug-related crimes in 2011(Carson). Therefore, rather than being helped, drug users are being incarcerated. If our goal, as a country, is to reduce the rate of drug use and help drug addicts receive treatment, then why are